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Comments 4
Coco — May 25, 2008
This is great! Confirms my suspicions and explains a lot...
Jay Livingston — May 26, 2008
Those purple "other" dots are "tonic" in New England (where you buy it not at a deli but at a "spa") and probably "coke" in the South. Here's a link to a source of similar maps on other regional speech variations http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html, which I included when I blogged about the soda/pop map last November (http://montclairsoci.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-is-that-youre-drinking.html)
F Craye — May 27, 2008
Jay: Actually, "coke" is already listed on the map. You're probably talking about "soft drink" in the South. In my experience, that is commonly used here.
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Comments 4
Coco — May 25, 2008
This is great! Confirms my suspicions and explains a lot...
Jay Livingston — May 26, 2008
Those purple "other" dots are "tonic" in New England (where you buy it not at a deli but at a "spa") and probably "coke" in the South. Here's a link to a source of similar maps on other regional speech variations http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html, which I included when I blogged about the soda/pop map last November (http://montclairsoci.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-is-that-youre-drinking.html)
F Craye — May 27, 2008
Jay: Actually, "coke" is already listed on the map. You're probably talking about "soft drink" in the South. In my experience, that is commonly used here.
Ana — December 16, 2009
I live in southern Georgia and we call it soda.