What's Your Generic Term for "Soft Drink?"

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[HarryCaray]

Let's see. Grew up in central Illinois.

Soda - but got made fun of in college (Ohio) where they called it pop. Then got made fun of again when I moved down south. Still calling it soda.
Lightning bugs
Garage sale
Y'all - grew up saying you guys, picked up y'all down south, still with me. It's shorter.
Garbage can
Semi
Water fountain
Tennis shoes

 

[HarryCaray]

I have some friends in Pittsburgh, and have been over to visit a few times. These people legitimately say yinz in everyday conversation. So weird.

 

[HarryCaray]

I've lived in Chicago and Cincinnati and I've never once heard someone call them gym shoes.

 

[CarolinaKid]

To me it coke hands down

 

[seldomseen]

Grew up in South Florida:
soda
lightening bugs
garage sale
y'all -used more often but you guys is still pretty common
trash can
semi
water fountain
gym shoes -don't remember anyone really calling them sneakers

 

[seldomseen]

I have some friends in Pittsburgh, and have been over to visit a few times. These people legitimately say yinz in everyday conversation. So weird.

Yinz?

 

[HarryCaray]

Yinz?

Instead of you guys or y'all.

Are yinz having people over tonight?

It sounds so ridiculous. I thought it was made up at first, but it is definitely real.

 

[seldomseen]

Instead of you guys or y'all.

Are yinz having people over tonight?

It sounds so ridiculous. I thought it was made up at first, but it is definitely real.

People talk like that? My family from Chicago make fun of me just for saying y'all which is perfectly normal dialect.

 

[HarryCaray]

People talk like that? My family from Chicago make fun of me just for saying y'all which is perfectly normal dialect.

Yep. People in Pittsburgh do, almost overwhelmingly.

Yeah my family clowns me for saying y'all too. It's just faster.

 

[Bourn]

Coke

 

[festeringZit]

Grew up in South Florida:
soda
lightening bugs
garage sale
y'all -used more often but you guys is still pretty common
trash can
semi
water fountain
gym shoes -don't remember anyone really calling them sneakers

I grew up in New York/New England, and the term was definitely "sneakers." I find myself still using the term, even though I've been
in the south for 25 years.

 

[mplastered]

I have some friends in Pittsburgh, and have been over to visit a few times. These people legitimately say yinz in everyday conversation. So weird.

Yes, these people do.