We call it "soda" around where I live but growing up we also had "tonic" and "soft drink". Once had a friend order "tonic" as a drink and the guy at the counter handed him a bottle of hair tonic.
We call it "soda" around where I live but growing up we also had "tonic" and "soft drink". Once had a friend order "tonic" as a drink and the guy at the counter handed him a bottle of hair tonic.
Canadian here (from the Southern Ontario area).
Generally it is called a Pop here (as in, "can you grab me a pop from the fridge"). To me, "soda" is soda water (Ie, the stuff you mix with flavour syrup to MAKE pop).
Most of the time though, you call it by the brand name (Ie, I want a Coke, or a Pepsi, or a Sprite, etc).
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This is likely because their restaurant may only serve carbonated drinks from one specific "family" supplier. If they only serve the Pepsi family of products, then when you ask for Coke (a cola) they will ask if Pepsi is ok, because Pepsi is the cola drink in the Pepsi family of drinks. Same way Sprite and 7-Up are competing brands in their families.
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I'm not from the US but I've heard the word soda more oftehn than pop coming from Americans.
I personally prefer hearing soda though.
As far as I know, we in the UK generally call things by their brand name. If we use a generic term, it's 'fizzy drink'.
This is of course based on my relatively tiny sample size.
I come from Scotland, and we have 2 words for "soda", and that would be "juice" or "ginger", inb4 'haha ginger'.
I live in Denmark, they call it 'sodavand', so i've actually started calling it 'soda' sometimes when speaking English.
But since this is about America, if a Scottish person said to me "what do they call ginger in America?", i'd say 'Soda', definitely, hence voted Soda.
I say soda to refer to all carbonated soft drinks, always thought pop was a New England or southern thing to say.
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Where I live, we use "Coke" for Coke (derp) and "Soda" for lemon... in general, we use the word "refrigerante", I don't think there's an equivalent in english.
Never heard anyone call it anything else but "coke" or cola inn Denmark I think?
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I live in England (You didn't really think I lived in the Howling Fjord, did you? ) so most people where I live call it pop. Children generally call it just "Fizzy Drink". But nobody here calls it Soda. I think it's an american thing
EDIT:
This, actually. But what I meant before was strictly between saying soda and pop.
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