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Originally Posted by kimgarwel12@gmail.com
When I ordered "pop" at a restaurant in Georgia one time, the waitress said "You must be from either Wisconsin or Michigan. They're the only people who call it "pop." We call is soda down here." Hmmmffffttt!! My brother and sister-in-law live in Atlanta (her born and bred, him for over 40 years). He asked me once if I wanted any "cokes." I told him, no, I'd rather have Dr. Pepper. He said down there, ANY "pop" or soda or soft drink was referred to as "coke(s). I don't think I have an "accent" (from Wisconsin), but everyone south of the Wisconsin/Illinois border insists I do!!!
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That is so true about “getting a coke.” I know in the mid-south (Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and I don’t know how much further it spreads out, anytime someone wanted to get what some call soda or pop we would always say “let’s go get a coke” even though some ended up with Dr Pepper or Sprite, etc. We never used soda or pop. These are interesting differences from area to area. And how many parts of the country say y’all? Not you all, just the contraction y’all?