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Soda in the US refers to "pop" in british english. Americans don't usually say "soda water" for carbonated water, in my experience.
by scrollaway 5y ago
Soda in the US refers to "pop" in british english. Americans don't usually say "soda water" for carbonated water, in my experience.
- scoot 5y ago> "pop" in british english It might be regional, but I think "soft drink" or ""fizzy drink" are far more common. I can't recall the last time I heard "pop" used in this sense.
- jrh206 5y agoWhen I was a child in Yorkshire I used to hear pop all the time. My parents and grandparents would say it. Nowadays it seems to have faded in favour of soft/fizzy drinks, but my grandma still says "pop".
- scoot 5y agoNorth of England was what I had in mind. I guess "soda pop" (US) and "fizzy pop" (UK) might have a common root.
- vidarh 5y agoWas about to write the same. I've lived in the UK 21 years and I can't recall ever having heard "pop" other than from Americans. An entirely unscientific search on some sites (Deliveroo, Ocado etc.) shows "pop" either not returning any drinks (Deliveroo near me) or returning pretty much the same as "soda", with Ocado returning the "fizzy drinks" category for both searches.
- FabHK 5y agoRegional variation in the US: A 1996 linguistics study inspired a map [...] showing “soda” prevalent on the coasts, while “pop” held sway in the Northwest and Midwest, and the generic “coke” took the South. There must be some electoral significance to this. https://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/the-soda-vs-pop-map/ https://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/the-soda-vs-pop-m...