It's been a couple yrs since I've been back east. I just remember growing up in Phila. and moving to Long Island and almost having to learn a new language.

>>I couldn't remember who it was. But I thought Kevin referred to it as "pop". Not to start a war of semantics over this one, but don't New Yawkers call it "pop"?
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>"New Yawkas" (that's how I pronounced it growing up) call it soda. "New Yorkers" (the way it is pronounced outside of Long Island, "the city", and parts of Westchester county) are, in my experience, divided. I think that "pop" is common in many rural parts of Western New York (my brother-in-law is from a town of 500 about 40 miles west of Elmira and he uses "pop"). I spent several years, however, in Rochester and never heard anything but "soda."
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>>>>John,
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>>>>You're diet soda (pop to the east coasters)
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>>>Not to east-coasters. Middle-westerners, though, do say "pop."
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>>>Tamar