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From: "Christy Fillerup" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Dialects, Language, Regionalism
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:32:06 -0700
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Chad, you beat me to it! We do say "soft drink" here in Salt Lake, I also
drink "soda-pop."

Christy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chad Milliner" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [APG] Dialects, Language, Regionalism


>I use the term "soft drink". It is perhaps not the most common term for
> beverages like Coke here in Salt Lake City, but it does get used,
> perhaps because it clearly connotes that it is a drink that is SOFT,
> i.e., not alcoholic. So it is thus a broader term than just for fizzy
> drinks, but also includes all other beverages (such as fruit smoothies)
> that a restaurant might serve that do not contain alcohol.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:] On
> Behalf Of Claire Keenan Agthe
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 1:18 PM
> To: philip thorne
> Cc: List
> Subject: Re: [APG] Dialects, Language, Regionalism
>
>
> On Feb 26, 2008, at 2:54 PM, philip thorne wrote:
>
>> ...where in the
>> U.S. do people say soft-drinks?
>
> As far as I know, that's a marketing / menu term. The sellers of
> coke/soda/pop use it as a generic term (to avoid the whole soda/pop/
> whatever debate, no doubt), but I don't think anyone uses it in everyday
> speech. But maybe I'll be proven wrong...
>
>
>> ...because liquor is something that everyone drinks in the Eastern
>> Caribbean...
>> anything other than liquor is called a soft-drink because it's the
>> opposite of something hard like Jack Iron Rum. So if I am visiting a
>> relative and they ask me what I want to drink and I want juice or soda
>
>> I'd say, can I have something soft.
>
> Well, I would say "soft drink" means soda/pop/whatever, but, I, too,
> would sometimes use "soft" to mean not hard liquor. But I don't know
> how common that is...
>
>
>> ...And NO I don't think that NYC is the center of the universe.
>
> Of course not, that's Boston, and it's the "hub." ;-)
>
>
> Claire
>
> Claire Keenan Agthe
>
> Don't forget --
> 16 March 2008 - Irish genealogy conference, Genealogical Society of
> Pennsylvania
> 3-6 Sept. 2008 - FGS conference, Philadelphia
>
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