Entertainment: Dialect Survey Results: COLORADO
For example, #105: “What is your generic term for a sweetened carbonated beverage?”
a. soda 35.48%
b. pop 48.97%
c. coke 4.99%
e. soft drink 6.16%
h. fizzy drink 0.29%
j. other 4.11%
Growing up 2 hr north of Coke’s HQ in Atlanta, coke was a generic term for “carbonated beverage.” Next would be a soft drink, then soda then maybe ‘pop.’
