language:soda, coke, or pop

Living in Texas means you refer to your soft drink of choice as a coke, even if you're drinking Dr Pepper or any other kind of soft drink. And while I knew calling soft drinks pop tended to be a Midwestern idiom, I didn't fully realize how regional the different things you call sugary carbonated beverages happened to be. Here's the map:


http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.html


I think this works from country to country too, judging by the fact that they call Spirte lemonade in the Australian primetime soap, McLeod's Daughters. I've learned more slang from that show.