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From: paul@dual.UUCP (Baker)
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Subject: Re: Pop vs. Soda
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 12:01:46 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  8 12:01:46 1985
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> >I was incredibly mystified when I moved to New Hampshire at the tender
> >age of 14 and found everyone referring to "tonic."  Tonic was something
> >you put in your hair to me!  But no, tonic meant pop.
> 
>   Is there anywhere else in the country where the natives call pop "tonic"
> besides New Hampshire? It seems as if it is the only place in the
> country to do so. I havn't seen responses from other parts of the
> country to the contrairy.
> 
There is always the "tonic" in "Gin & tonic".  I have got what
I expected in at least three different states.

Paul Wilcox-Baker.