How Do You Pronounce This Word?

[gsmittle]

For all of my formative years in Texas ... it was a "coke" ... didn't matter if it was root beer, cola, 7-up or cream soda ... we went to get "a coke" ... in the last few years I've heard it commonly referred to as either "a soda" or "a soft drink" ... but to me ... it's "a coke" ...

Yep, I learned to call a carbonated beverage "coke," too. Except you had "dark coke" and "light coke," with "light coke" being things like 7-up or Sprite or cream soda.

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[TB Roye]

When I grew up here in California Coke meant, Coke Pepsi, RC Cola. 7up was 7up, same with root beer, orange soda or Grape Nehie(spelling) Dr Pepper was also separate. Now I hear "Soda" as refering to any soft/carbonated drink. Me Pepsi please, or Crown Royal please.


Tom

[BobSch]

Me Pepsi please, or Crown Royal please.


Tom

Crown Royal or Royal Crown?

[gsmittle]

Crown Royal or Royal Crown?

You put the Crown Royal in the Royal Crown, sort of like putting the lime in the coconut…

Have we hijacked this thread enough times yet?
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[TB Roye]

Pepsi with lunch. Crown Royal at 5pm never did like Royal Crown. Crown Royal regula, Black and Select. Nice. The Select is so smooth.

Tom

[cabinetman]

I used the a sound rather that opie on the end. Like Kaliapi, might be a South Sacramento oki sound. All you midwesterner, East Coast people have accents anyway. Southerners and Texans well that is a different story.

Tom

Accents can change the way a word is said. On the poll, the "other" had some votes, and I wonder how different those would be to the other two selections.

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