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YooHooo! I say chaps don't forget the rest of us

Saturday October 29, 2005

Tally ho and bless my britches wot wot. Posts like this one jolly well tick me off, Jeeves more tea!

I mean don’t those bloody Americans realize that there is a whole world outside of their borders?

So, my fellow earthlings, allow me to reword for you:

What is the right name for a soft drink? This map shows what we call them across the countryUSA.

More tea vicar? Snarf!

  1. Matt Robin

    1769 days ago

    And who the hell under the age of 40 calls it ‘pop’? No one…(Not even in America!)

    John: What’s the Welsh word for it then? (As you obviously represent all of your nation!)

  2. Richard Dunlop-Walters

    1769 days ago

    Some of the idiocy that goes on within Digg never ceases to amaze me. I suppose you get that within any community led set up, but sheesh, Digg takes it to a whole new level.

    That wonky tab index gets me every time by the way. I’m going to miss it once it’s been fixed.

  3. Joshua Kendall

    1769 days ago

    My View:

    1. Soda, the genre of drink.
    2. Pop, the sound it makes when you open the can.
    3. Coke, a brand name soda.*

    Usage:

    Waitress: “Can I get you anything to drink?”
    Myself: “What type of soda do you serve?”
    Waitress: “Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, ...”
    Myself: “I would like a Coke please.”

    I believe pop is only used in the deep deep south. Although I have been to almost all of the states on vacations (can’t remember Florida or Georgia, being I was real young when we visited those states) and I have never heard anyone ask if I wanted a pop and I have never seen pop on a menu.

    *based on the title of the article.

  4. Sara McClure

    1769 days ago

    Does “country” = “world”? I am a yank but the wording does make sense to me, for someone in the USA to refer to their location as “the country”. Just wondering?

    Language & how different dialects develop fascinate me. For the record, I grew up saying “pop” in the USA midwest, but now say “soda” living in the Rocky Mountains, but think of it as sugary bubble water (and would prefer tea any day).

  5. Richard Dunlop-Walters

    1769 days ago

    Digg isn’t read by just Americans, though, Sara.

    And by the way, I lived in South Wales for 4 years, and it was always pop there, which annoyed me to no end.

  6. Sara McClure

    1769 days ago

    Aahh, Digg. So many morons, such wasted energy. I do enjoy some of the links I find there, but I don’t dare read the comments any longer.

  7. Graham Bancroft

    1769 days ago

    I believe some regions of the wonderfull island, just north of Engalnd, that is Scotland, generalise soft drinks by refering to them simply as Ginger, perhaps one of your sweaty readers could confirm ;)

  8. Garrett Dimon

    1769 days ago

    Guilty as charged. It’s all “coke” here in the “deep south” of Dallas, TX.

    Friend: You want a coke?
    Me: Sure.
    Friend: What kind?
    Me: Dr. Pepper.

  9. Vexeffexx

    1769 days ago

    Everyone I know, and everyone near me calls it Pop. I’m in Ontario, CA.

  10. Ian Brown

    1769 days ago

    I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve always called it fizzy. As the drink is fizzy. Most of my mates do as well. Maybe it’s a where I live thing.

  11. John

    1769 days ago

    Went to college in Michigan and EVERYONE called it Pop there. Young, old, it didn’t matter. I’m not really sure why it really bothers you that someone put up a link to a map of what people call soda in the USA. If someone put up a similar map of the UK, I wouldn’t get upset. But maybe I’m missing the point.

  12. Mark

    1769 days ago

    The upsetting part to me was that someone expended the time, money, and mental resources necessary to request, compile, and process over 120,000 bits of data regarding the names people use when referring to their soft drinks. I hope there was no grant money involved. ;-)

    And hey, that’s a fourth… “Soft drink.” I demand a re-poll!

  13. Hilde

    1767 days ago

    Brus, anyone?

    “Brus” is the generic name for soft drinks in Norway.

    I have a question for those of you with (any kind of) English as your native tongue:

    How do you think your Internet experiences would have been if you had to go about the net using another language? What if the “dominant” language on the net was.. say.. Spanish.

    This is not a question asked in bitterness, just a curious philosophical thought.

    And how do the not-english-as-mother-tongue-people out there picture their Internet experience if their language was the dominant one?

    If I write in norwegian, I come across as far more eloquent, witty and competent, but I reach a fairly small audience (under 5 million people in the world speaks/reads norwegian. 2 of them read my blog.).
    If I write in english, I could potentially reach a far greater audience, but it would take quite an effort to articulate my thoughts just as well. So nobody would read it anyway.

    (So I keep my blogs in Norwegian and spam my favorite blogs with stupid philosophical questions in english instead…)

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