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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.nlang
Subject: Re: Pop vs. Soda
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 12:16:06 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  3 12:16:06 1985
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Summary: 


Carbonated beverages are called soda.
"Soda pop" is correct, but archaic.
"Pop" a frozen desert on a stick.
"Tonic" belongs on your hair (if you're an old geezer).
"Coke" is short for Coca-cola, which is one particular
	brand and flavor of soda.
"Orange Coke" is a contradiction in terms.
"Club soda" is the WASP term for seltzer.

All of you who have been using the wrong terms now stand corrected.

	Frank Silbermann