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[camper4lyfe]

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."
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It IS pop damnit!

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[kristenny.livejournal.com]

Apparantly, I'm "Midland."

However, down here, everything is "coke." People who say "soda," "pop," or "soda pop" are mocked mercilessly as throwbacks to the 1950s. (yes, I KNOW calling it anything other than the generic "coke" makes more sense, but the other words equally annoy me. Frankly, carbonated beverages annoy me, so maybe that's it! ;))

[camper4lyfe.livejournal.com]

They do that in TX too. It's all coke.

"What would you like to drink?"
"I'd like a coke."
"What kind of coke would you like?"

[kristenny.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Haha!

My favorite was at my first job, an old-timey drive-through, and someone said, "And I'll take a coke."

I replied, "Pepsi okay?"

His reply? "That's what I said." Snerk.



Which makes me think yet again to one of my classes - Consitutional Law - in school right now. We're studying cases involving issues of dual federalism (state powers v. Congressional power), and I've come to the conclusion: I might be a states'-righter if I didn't live in the South. Down here, we need people to figure things out for us. If it were left to back-ass-wards Southern states, minority and gay lynchings would have tailgate parties and corporate sponsorship. :P

[camper4lyfe.livejournal.com]

If it were left to back-ass-wards Southern states, minority and gay lynchings would have tailgate parties and corporate sponsorship. :P

That's exactly what's happening with our government. We've got a bassackwards Southern president who throws tailgate barties for minority and gay lynchings.

[lord-jim.livejournal.com]

SODA!!!

Well at least you didn't say tonic! :)

[camper4lyfe.livejournal.com]

To me, soda has no flavor. Soda to me is soda water.

[lord-jim.livejournal.com]

Well now, you see, just to be inconsistent with all those Mass. types, soda water is known as tonic. :)

[belleaire.livejournal.com]

I like to call it "soda" just to piss off people around me. "Pop" makes me giggle, especially if it's pronounced "pahp".