Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 09:02:15 -0400

From: "David A. Johns" djohns[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PEACHNET.CAMPUS.MCI.NET

Subject: Re: Student Q: pop/soda/coke/cola



At 12:41 AM 10/19/96 +1608, Donald M. Lance wrote:



I understand

there's a soda/pop isogloss in Michigan -- like Missouri, with pop being

west of soda, and the latter being urban in flavor. Maybe in Minnesota or

Wisconsin too.



When I moved from Chicago to Burlington, Wisconsin (75 miles NW of Chicago),

in 1975, I crossed a soda/pop boundary, but I'm not sure which way. I think

it was pop in Chicago and soda in Burlington -- oldtimers disease, you know.



David Johns

Waycross College

Waycross, GA