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From: "Richard A. Pence" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Dialects, Language, Regionalism
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:02:30 -0500
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"Claire Keenan Agthe" <> wrote:
> 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...

Soft drinks = nonalcoholic drinks.

I've hard it in "everyday speech."

E.g.:

"How about a beer?"

"Do you have any soft drinks?"

Richard

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