what do you call it Soda or Pop? and why?!

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pop
it's what it's known as here in Minn.
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Soda comes from soda water, which is an old term for carbonated water. Pop refers to the bubbles. However, the words people use vary a lot from one region to another: soda, soda pop, pop, Coke (in some areas every kind of soda pop is called Coke), etc.

The word "soda" comes from sodium compounds (such as sodium bicarbonate) sometimes added to fizzy water to counteract the acidity from the carbonation.

I used to call it soda only, because that is what everyone calls it in California. I've lived in Idaho for over 8 years now, and I call it pop now sometimes, because that is what is is called around here. It also depends on who I'm around. I call it soda around my family and pop around my husbands.

The full name is soda pop, in Ontario we shorten it to pop.
By soda, we mean carbonated water, which is a mixer for alcohol.

I say pop. The reason why is because to me it just takes less time to say pop, than soda.

I call them soft drinks,or cold drinks.Most people here in Mississippi just call them Coke are call them by their name brand!

Pop-I am from western PA also. The northeast is the most sophisticated part of the country so we are right and the rest of you hillbillies and rednecks are wrong

Soda. Because I'm From America. (:

Drinking SODA.

Pop, that's what it's always been called. You can't call it "Coke". That's a brand of pop.

Pop. That's how Western Pennsylvanian's say it :)

I don't call it as it never come I just go and fetch one its quicker and easier!

Pop. It's just what I've always known it as.

"Soda" seems really old-fashioned to me for some reason...

Unlike my neighbors, I call it soda. Then again I don't know why. It's what we called it growing up in Arizona.

pop! because i live in canada eh

I call it coke, live in Atlanta