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My wife is from the South and when I meet new people while visiting there,(often) I am always asked if I'm from California (I'm from Denver). According to my wife and others, apparently we pronounce every letter in a word and stress the consonant's hard. They ask the same thing when I'm in Chicago or Miami. I have always thought that i had the most neutral of all neutral accents.... Guess not!
Ditto my husband from Nebraska, if it has a number on it; e.g. State Route 15, is "Highway 15".
Around here (NE Texas) small county roads are usually "FM 314" or something like that - the FM means "Farm to Market." And people will say "FM 314." Not just "314." Larger roads, which can still be rural, are typically called "Highway 271" or just plain "271" or "155"or whatever the number is, but it's not uncommon to for someone to say "Go out highway 155 towards Frankston - you know, the Frankston Highway." OK. No, I didn't know that - just give me the road number!
Just got back from a trip to Minneapolis. We went to a baseball game and I asked a worker at the stadium where I could get a soda. He said "What?" I replied "Pop. Soft drink."
When I was a kid in Western NY, my aunt, from NYC, asked me if I wanted a soda. I asked what kind she had, expecting to hear flavors like chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, etc. She answered "7-Up or Coke". First time I realized that not everyone calls a sweetened, carbonated beverage that same thing as I do. Didn't think to ask her how she orders what I call a soda in a restaurant. Guess the soda crowd has to be more specific when they order: I'd like an *ice cream* soda, please.
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When I was a kid in Western NY, my aunt, from NYC, asked me if I wanted a soda. I asked what kind she had, expecting to hear flavors like chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, etc. She answered "7-Up or Coke". First time I realized that not everyone calls a sweetened, carbonated beverage that same thing as I do. Didn't think to ask her how she orders what I call a soda in a restaurant. Guess the soda crowd has to be more specific when they order: I'd like an *ice cream* soda, please.
I'm confused. 7-Up and Coke are also pop/soda.
Did you only refer to generic pop as soda and brand name pop as pop? Also where can you find chocolate pop? I've never found it. haha
Did you only refer to generic pop as soda and brand name pop as pop? Also where can you find chocolate pop? I've never found it. haha
You must be the eastern part of NY. In Western NY, "pop" = Coke, Pepsi, 7-Up, Mountain Dew and any other sugary carbonated beverage. "Soda" = ice cream sodas which are composed of ice cream, flavored syrup, and carbonated water. As for "chocolate pop", there is (was?) Yoo-hoo, a non-carbonated (so not really pop or soda) chocolate flavored drink sold in pop bottles. We couldn't get in my my hometown, but when we moved to So. FL, it was widely available there. I believe it was made in NJ. But it's been years since I drank pop/soda/Yoo-hoo. Maybe it's not a thing anymore?
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You must be the eastern part of NY. In Western NY, "pop" = Coke, Pepsi, 7-Up, Mountain Dew and any other sugary carbonated beverage. "Soda" = ice cream sodas which are composed of ice cream, flavored syrup, and carbonated water. As for "chocolate pop", there is (was?) Yoo-hoo, a non-carbonated (so not really pop or soda) chocolate flavored drink sold in pop bottles. We couldn't get in my my hometown, but when we moved to So. FL, it was widely available there. I believe it was made in NJ. But it's been years since I drank pop/soda/Yoo-hoo. Maybe it's not a thing anymore?
Nope, I'm from western/central! At the corners of Steuben/Schuyler/Chemung. I know it's not colloquial Western NY, but it's geographically western.
Around here pop and soda just refer to all soft drinks. In fact I honestly hear both interchangeably, sometimes by the same person.
We call "ice cream sodas" floats! Always have. I didn't know there was another name for a float. You learn something new every day.
Yoo-Hoo is definitely still around. I've never heard anybody call it a pop or a soda though. I like it on occasion.
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First time I realized that not everyone calls a sweetened, carbonated beverage that same thing as I do. Didn't think to ask her how she orders what I call a soda in a restaurant. Guess the soda crowd has to be more specific when they order: I'd like an *ice cream* soda, please. 
In Western NY, "pop" = Coke, Pepsi, 7-Up, Mountain Dew and any other sugary carbonated beverage. "Soda" = ice cream sodas which are composed of ice cream, flavored syrup, and carbonated water. As for "chocolate pop", there is (was?) Yoo-hoo, a non-carbonated (so not really pop or soda) chocolate flavored drink sold in pop bottles. We couldn't get in my my hometown, but when we moved to So. FL, it was widely available there. I believe it was made in NJ. But it's been years since I drank pop/soda/Yoo-hoo. Maybe it's not a thing anymore? 
