Why do people in the Midwest use the term "pop" when referring to soda?!
Why do people in the Midwest use the term "pop" when referring to soda?
I mean, it's stupid, You can call it soda, or soda pop, but I call my grandpa, "Pop"(short for popa), and it seems so strange to hear people call a coke or pepsi, "pop".
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I hate it too, but It's all over the country, not just the midwest.
its a pop, get over it, i call my grandfather, grandpa, and my grandmother, grandma.
theres no paw-paw, or me-maw where i come from
im guessing its because of the popping sound when you open a can...
Why are you so judgmental? I bet there are many things that you say that others might think sound stupid. Just because something is strange to you doesn't mean it is stupid.
Do you have breakfast, lunch and dinner? Some people have breakfast dinner, and supper. It means the same thing.
Why is it ok to call soda pop soda but not pop? You are just dropping a word. Other people call them soft drinks. Some people might say that they would like a coke, and the reply would be "what flavor coke do you want"?
i'm from the midwest and we thought everyone else called it pop too. Maybe it's a redneck term.
because the literal term is soda pop and we just shorten it up with ''pop"!
I also prefer the word soda, it is what I grew up on. When I talked to people from the midwest I asked them if they like soda and they reply yes I like pop. I think we can both understand the different words but we just prefer to use what we grew up on. It isn't like it is a different language just different usage of words.
Years ago, I looked in the Oxford English Dictionary as people around me were arguing horribly about what one "ought" to call it. Interestingly, whereas "pop" comes from the sound of opening a bottle (and has at various times applied also to beers, champagnes, fizzy waters, etc), soda comes from, if I remember right, sodium bicarbonate, which was used to make water fizz. However, there is no bicarbonate of soda, no chemical soda at all in [soda, pop, coke, etc], which leads one to ask why it would be called soda. No doubt, very simply, as "tea" to some people means "supper" to others and "dinner" to others, it's simply a reflection of development of language. Neither is right or wrong....the both have a reason for existing. The etymological basis for "pop" is stronger, because onomatopoeia is always a valid reason for a name.
Area culture, in NY we say "ROOOF" on a house, everywhere else in the U.S., it is pronounced "RUFF"..... "Dang", "Y'all", and "Git her done" will certainly gain you the respect of a "Martian" if you use those terms here (nothing wrong with them, just nobody uses them, it's a DEAD language in NY, then again, we chop our words in half, to say them "FASTER").
In the UK I call 'soda' by the word I knw and love, pop.
You're allowed to hate the word pop if you start calling 'soccer', football.
Canadians call it pop too. I thought it was different when I first moved here from the states but I got over it. I now call it pop .