I say soda. When I lived in Washington people gave me funny looks because I never said pop. The world is strange.

I've always said soda. My grandparents were from the northeast, so occasionally my dad will say pop.

It's often said that southerners call everything "coke," but that's not all that true. I mean, we do refer to soda as "coke" in the categorical sense (Ex: "Tea is a much healthier option than beer or coke"), but that's about it. If I know the ice chest is filled with nothing but Sprite and bottled water, I'm not going to ask for a fucking coke. No one's going to know what the hell I'm talking about.

Neither.

It's always been softdrink for me.

Soda I have always said Soda, I haven't heard anyone say "Excuse me, can I get a Pop?" it's been a long time at least five years at least.

Soda...SODA I SAY!

It's pop. It comes from "soda pop". Pop is the noun, soda is an adjective that describes pop. Things are properly referred to by the noun, not the adjective. You say "tissue" for facial tissue, not "facial". "Pop" is the noun. "Soda" is the adjective. "Pop" is the correct term. End of discussion.

I made that mistake once. Was not pretty.

Soda.

In Danish, it is called "Sodavand" which directly translates into soda-water. There's not really any other word for it in Danish and we've never used the word "pop" to describe it.

Actually, we do have another word for it... "Læskedrik". Which translates to soft drink. But we never use that word anymore, it's an old word for it, like, back in the 40's.

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Soda water. What type of water? Soda water.

Soda Springs? What type of springs? Soda Springs.

Soda bread. What type of bread? Soda bread.

Soda glass. What type of glass? Soda glass.

Soda crystals. What type of crystals? Soda crystals.

Soda ash. What type of ash? Soda ash.

Soda cracker. What type of cracker? Soda cracker.

Soda pulping. What type of pulping? Soda pulping.

Soda pop. What type of pop? Soda pop.

Really, if you say you're drinking soda, you could be drinking anything from pop, to molten glass, to lye. It's adjective to all of those things.

I'm for the Chicagoland area, and I've honestly never heard anyone call it anything but pop, but I believe that's a regional thing.

Soda.

Soda.

Nobody in New England (to my knowledge at least) uses the term pop.

I can't speak for Connecticut and Rhode Island definitively but I guess that means in my experience, Northern New England uses soda.

Get this.

While Coke, Fanta, etc are officially known as Soft Drinks here, everyone (In Northern Ireland) refers to them as "Juice". We're all very aware that they are not juice but its just what everyone calls them, some people even call them "Fizzy Juice". Then again we are a weird country.

Pop.

No one I've ever known has said Soda. Ever.

I've always said soda, never pop. And is that really a stereotype? I'm from the south too, and I've never heard this stereotype before.

Like. What? That's like calling all juice "orange juice." God southerners are stupid.



Sodium is a noun. Soda is an abbreviation of sodium, and is generally placed before objects that contain or were produced using sodium. Since the definition of "adjective" is simply just an attributive word used to describe a noun, its a pretty valid argument that "soda" is an adjective.

HOWEVER, if I remember correctly, the "pop" portion of "soda pop" is almost unanimously believed to come from the sound that most cans or bottles would make when you open them.

So, I'm calling it an adjective, and you're calling it a sound. And funnily enough, pop (or popping) could be used as an adjective.

Ultimately, this makes both choices arbitrary in terms of their grammatical correctness.

I usually call it by the name.

Sprite, Coke, Pepsi....etc

I've always called it soda. I am from Wisconsin, so everyone I know, (except my uncle, he calls it soda pop) call it soda.
Now, since I moved down to Texas, I have heard different variations of it. People will ask for a coke, but when you give them a coke, they wanted a different drink. People will say they want a soda water, Which is weird.
I was in a drive-thru at Whataburger, and someone literally wanted have coke, and half water.

I was raised with soda. I will die with soda. Fuck callin it pop. Shit irritates me. Ever since I came up to WA (same as killswitch, us nigs came from cali. Still here in WA though), errbody calls it pop.

Fizzy drink. Pop sounds babyish and soda is rarely used in UK (NI notwithstanding) for anything other than 'cream soda' .

You must be fun at parties.

It's a regional thing. I generally call it soda or whatever brand name it is.

I have to say soda, pop is a genre of music or art its also an onomatopoeoa ????

Both.