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Jun 26, 2010 | 2:15 pm

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Originally Posted by opus17

That's bad, this is worse. It's stupid to use the brand name Kleenex for all facial tissue products, but at least the use is confined to that particular product.

This is more like:
"What kind of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes would you like?" "Cheerios"

"What kind of Dutch Boy Seashell interior Latex paint you like?" Blue.

"Which Bob Dylan's 'The Basement Tapes' album do you want to buy?" "I would like the Lady Gaga 'The Fame Monster' Bob Dylan 'The Basement Tapes' album."

You do know that "aspirin" began as "Aspirin," a brand name, don't you? And that it's still branded that way in Canada, for instance?

What kind of aspirin would you like?

Jun 26, 2010 | 2:19 pm

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Originally Posted by hoyateach

I grew up in MA. If it was carbonated, it was "tonic." Which made for an interesting flight on NW BOS-ORD when I was a kid. My little brother, age 9 at the time, asked the FA for a "tonic," expecting a Coke. Boy, was he disappointed.

Grew up on Mass here as well any my family has always said "tonic" for anything "soda" related - Pepsi, Coke, etc.

At school, since we couldnt have 'tonic' we went to the bubbler

Jun 26, 2010 | 2:21 pm

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Originally Posted by cblaisd

Interesting.

Even for non-Catholics, is that the colloquial term?

Wake is very common in Mass/New England. I went to school in NC and it was always a "visitation"

Jun 26, 2010 | 2:34 pm

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Originally Posted by DenverBrian

You do know that "aspirin" began as "Aspirin," a brand name, don't you? And that it's still branded that way in Canada, for instance?

What kind of aspirin would you like?

Asprin is a trademark owned by Bayer.
It has fallen into the generic word status (the term for this escapes me).

Now... where's the bubbler?

Jun 26, 2010 | 2:36 pm

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Now... where's the bubbler?

Down the hall from the gym!

Jun 26, 2010 | 4:31 pm

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Wake is very common in Mass/New England. I went to school in NC and it was always a "visitation"

I've always thought of the wake as that reception you go to after the funeral.

Jun 26, 2010 | 4:48 pm

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I've always thought of the wake as that reception you go to after the funeral.

Its also quite common in the northeast for the family to have a lunch after the funeral service at a local restaurant - in the south, it tends to be at the family's church hall. The wake, in my experience, is the night before at the funeral home. aka viewing, visitation.

Jun 26, 2010 | 8:30 pm

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I had a grandson and son-in-law over tonight. I asked, "Do you want a soft drink? I have Coke, ginger ale, diet vanilla Coke, or Minute Maid diet cherry lime." I also had tea, milk, water, red wine.

Jun 27, 2010 | 6:27 am

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I had a grandson and son-in-law over tonight. I asked, "Do you want a soft drink? I have Coke, ginger ale, diet vanilla Coke, or Minute Maid diet cherry lime." I also had tea, milk, water, red wine.

And you were very proud of yourself, weren't you?

Jun 27, 2010 | 7:25 am

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Originally Posted by DenverBrian

It kind of spoils the good work when the map claims it's based on 120,464 respondants. Sigh.

I'm also surprised "soda pop" wasn't allowed as a valid expression. Has no one read S.E. Hinton lately?

Agreed, although "soda pop" in common usage (here in a red/maroon area) went away with the advent of the 60s. I thought the survey was interesting, but flawed by any failure to look at response by age groups (or to attempt to define the ages of respondents). I suspect that nationwide the generic names for "soft drinks" (Now, there's another!) have much to do with age, economic and social status, and level of education.

Of course, here in the hometown and birthplace of Dr. Pepper, a county labeled as maroon on the map, I might have even deeper disagreements with the survey. Come to think of it, Big Red was born here too.

Jun 27, 2010 | 8:12 am

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Of course, here in the hometown and birthplace of Dr. Pepper, a county labeled as maroon on the map, I might have even deeper disagreements with the survey. Come to think of it, Big Red was born here too.

A spelling variant of which might be "Dr Pepper"?

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Can't help it, just can't. . . .

Jun 27, 2010 | 2:07 pm

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A spelling variant of which might be "Dr Pepper"?

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Can't help it, just can't. . . .

I grew up with (a) Dr. Pepper with a ".", (b) English teachers likely to hand out a clout upside the head for such abuse of punctuation, and (c), a father who was a surgeon, thus "Dr.", although he belonged to the cadre which held that the M.D. suffix was far more important than the Dr. prefix (since it was employed by countless hordes of yahoos and all too many scalawags pastoring Southren Baptist churches).

Jun 27, 2010 | 9:13 pm

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The map clearly illustrates a fact that those of us from PA already knew: the western part of the state is so culturally different than the eastern part. It is clearly and quite starkly divided down the middle between the eastern "soda" people and the midwestern "pop" folks.
I'm from Philly, so of course it's soda.

Jun 27, 2010 | 9:21 pm

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Originally Posted by gj83

I lived in MO for a while. STL and COU say Soda. MCI and places like that say pop.

Parts of IL around STL say soda, but parts of CHI say pop.

Pretty much educated people say soda and hicks say pop.

Judging by the map, southern hicks (including the "Appalachian Americans" in NC and TN) say coke.

Jun 27, 2010 | 9:59 pm

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Originally Posted by deubster

I had a grandson and son-in-law over tonight. I asked, "Do you want a soft drink? I have Coke, ginger ale, diet vanilla Coke, or Minute Maid diet cherry lime." I also had tea, milk, water, red wine.

Did you point out where the emergency exits where? And that the nearest one may be located behind you?

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