Mapping How Americans Talk - Soda vs. Pop vs. Coke
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- What's your general term for a sweetened carbonated beverage? What word or words do you use to address a group of two or more people? What do you call it when the rain falls while the sun is shining?
Former Harvard professor Bert Vaux asked tens of thousands of people across the U.S. these questions and released the results as the 2003 Harvard Dialect Survey. The data are fascinating; they reveal patterns of migration, unexpected linguistic kinships between regions, and the awesome variety of words we say and how we say them.
The study has wormed its way into popular consciousness and periodically morphs into a meme (just search "accent tag" on TH-cam). Last summer, North Carolina State University graduate student Joshua Katz turned Vaux's geographical data into a set of stunning heat maps that went viral.
For the video above, we called people across the country to ask them a few of Vaux's questions, then layered the answers with maps based on Katz's. You'll hear what Philadelphians call a group of people, the many ways of pronouncing "pecan," and what Southerners mean when they say "the devil is beating his wife."
To delve deeper into the world of dialects, check out Vaux's original study, Katz's maps, and the Phonological Atlas of North American English. See also Deborah Fallows' writing on language across the country for the American Futures project. Thanks to FoBoGro and the Johnson Casket Company for their help.
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Fascinating video ty!
What do you call an insect that rolls into a ball?
"A pill bug"
"a rollie pollie"
"uh... shrimp?"
Kim Jong The Choo Choo Train of Bel-Air Can we all just appreciate your name?
Clax That's what's so great about it. If my comment fails to rake in likes, my name will.
It's called natural selection
Kim Jong The Choo Choo Train of Bel-Air Well, he's not far off. A Rollie Pollie isn't a insect but is a crustacean.
Kim Jong The Choo Choo Train of Bel-Air Hahaha. It worked XD
We don't have a lot of Rollie Pollies here in NJ/NY.... I've only seen like 5
Growing up in Alabama
"Y'all wanna coke?"
"Yeah"
"What kind?"
"Dr. Pepper"
Tori Bunt same in Texas lol
*Y'all wanna coke?*
_sure_
*What kind?*
_the hell you mean by "what kind"?_
ChicagoIsHome hahaha coke means soda for us I guess, when we say "coke" we could seriously mean everything besides sweet tea and water
ChicagoIsHome they do make diet coke, cherry coke, lime coke, vanilla coke, coke zero, Mexican coke... lol
Same! I say "coke" instead of soda but I'm from Southern California and now live in Las Vegas. I constantly get corrected about it though. "Mountain Dew is not coke... it's SODA."
“A waste of god damn time!”
That cracked me up. 😂
The most southern thing I've heard
God bless the south
@@polinaignatenkova3634 guy wasn't southern, pretty sure that was the mainer
@@sad6boy Well I'm pretty sure most southerners say the same thing. I've never heard anyone say "mute point"
@@gemkitten984 I wasn't saying that only mainers said it, I was just saying that guy specifically is the complete opposite direction of south
Pennsylvania: goes to subway
Also Pennsylvania: “Yeah, can I get a uh... *hoogie* ?”
A wild Filing cabinet hoagie* but yeah we all say that and I didn’t know other places didn’t call it that
We go to Wawas when available , subway is an extreme last option 😂
It’s called the fucking ell
A wild Filing cabinet I’m so confused what is that..I moved from tn and gotta learn some pa stuff can anybody help..I don’t understand y’alls language with this pop stuff. I always called it coke they’d be like you want a coke? Yeah! What kind? Uhhh sprite?
I’m from PA and I just.... I’ve never heard someone say... dear god, I don’t even want to say it - but I’ve never heard them say Hoogi???
this ended too soon
Trishy Ryan i agree
not for the last guy it didn't haha
yes it did
Trishy Wymer you are gorgeous sweetheart
Trishy Wymer
They should do other countries
I'm pretty sure "Soda" and "Pop" can put aside their differences and bully "Coke"
Fire Ballin no you can't bully us unreconstructed wait wrong thing
Blondie Ballin in Tennessee I've never heard anyone call it a Coke
Carter Sams idk what part you're from but everyone that I'm around has called it coke
I'm from Washington State. Most people born here say pop, but with all these recent transplants, I hear soda a lot more often now. One thing I've never heard here is calling soda pop a coke as a generic term in this part of the country ever!
Lollypops4ever99 I live in southern Texas and everyone asks for a coke
It’s funny seeing the whole country call it a subway, but I live right near DC, so I was like “oh the metro!”
Shulk tiem same. Here in Northern Va, so I was like we are the only ones who call it Metro
I thought the term would be more widely used or common along the northern border. We also call it the metro in Canada.
@@surayaranjber4740 In the UK it's either metro or underground.
Illinois has the L (in Chicago) and the Metra (to and from Chicago)
Yeah, same goes for Boston, we all just call it the T, although I would call it a subway if I was referring to subways in general and not specifically the T... if that makes sense
Im canadian but as far as i can tell i just sound like someone from minnesota
People from Minnesota are the closest to Canadians you'll get here
haha I'm sorry, out of all the American accents I think the Minnesota/North Dakota accent the worst
Yep ouch thanks
@@yep2464 It's really not that bad, I've lived in MN my entire life and have never come across the steroeotypical "Oh, don'tcha know" kind of Minnesotans. The only difference I ever notice is how everyone says pop
NogginEgg you haven’t talked to a person from here if you’ve never heard “dontcha know”
Dang, the last caller, LOL
Gotta love Maine.
Chinna Reid I was waiting to see what would happen and I wasn't disappointed lol
johnnyisfun21 e
"What do you call a point that wasn't worth discussing"
"A god damn waste of time" gotta love the south
Pff yeah
That's Maine bud
Leah Meyers LMAO
I just say pointless
Leah Meyers Yas
Whenever pronounces moot as “a waste of your goddamn time” is correct
I read the comment at exactly the same time as he said it xD
Yes I'd like an *ORANGE COKE*
They have that in stores right now!!!!!
That's Called a Orange Vanilla Coke My man
Lol right
I'm just wtf the first 1-2 sec. after I hear stuff like "orange coke", then I realise it's just how you call sodas.
😂😂😂
What do you call the insect that rolls into a ball. I don't know what you're talking about ... a shrimp
😂
lmao
Actually they are same family as shrimp not insects.
Diamond Hunter they are actually crustaceans, not insects. that guy was on the right track
Diamond Hunter I've lived in New England my whole life and I've never seen or heard of one of those either.
Minnesotans are weird.
"i don't know what were talking about is that a shrimp?" LOL
I kinda would of said that too. Have no clue what it would be anyways.
Where was it on the map where they didn't have that kind of bug? I'm pretty sure it only showed up as New York. I lived in NC and there were tons of them but now I live in Indiana and there are absolutely none. Surprised it was only New York that didn't have them.
fun fact, they are technically crustaceans. therefore, shrimp isn't that far off
@@Echocookie8948 I live in NC and am from NY, only ever saw stinkbugs and pillbugs here, never in NY.
Also FUCK the wolf spiders you guys have around here, those fuckin things are the size of subway rats
See but I appreciate that it was a thematic map, because some states have drastically different cultures in different parts of them. Northern and Southern Virginia are SO different, it’s strange.
Yeah you travel a few miles and it's completely different lol
Annie Sutliff Same with Western and Eastern PA. Us Pittsburghers have barely anything in common with people from Philly
From city to hick-town in just five miles
True I'm from NYC and upstate New York might as well be Connecticut
Northern va and southern va is so night and day its crazy, one second you're in a place that feels like Alabama then outta no where youre in DC State
i could tell there wasn't anyone from Pittsburgh cause there was no "yinz" for what do you call a group of people
I was just thinking that, Im so glad somebody else said it!
tf is a yinz?? My southern is showing we just say y’all
@@abialston8476 yeah here in Pittsburgh are yall yinz. At least we dont call every pop a coke.
I was waiting for yinz to appear and it never did,,, I’m disappointed
They didn't do youns either
Coke wtf I call it Soda, coke is a type of Soda.
The Courier, coke means soda, Coke-a-cola is a type of soda
It’s pop get it right
@@cakesfan1220 lmao no that's like going to an apple store and saying i want an android device and then they say which one then i say the iphone 8.
Same
I say coke I always have
As a non-american, this whole video confuses me greatly.
Pixelle Ok
Pixelle if ya lived here you’d understand. Continental us is as big and diverse as continental Europe, so there’s going to be a lot of different versions of everything.
@@appleseeds3602 it's a big continent but definitely not ad diverse as europe..
Silas Maurer yeah ok, but still very diverse. And when different parts of a country have different cultures, heritage, and lifestyles, the language is going to be different across the country
In America everyone speaks differently. Some people talk with an accent while others not as much
tired of the lack of representation for my state of alaska I AM NOT HAPPY
I've been there a couple of times and its surprising how unique the accent can be
I knowwww. I find myself identifying with a little bit of everyone in this video. Alaska isn't midwest or west or southern or northeast or anything!
Come to America and you’ll be represented, don’t get all angry, dang, what even.
@@theimprobableone8635 relaxxxxx holy shit
*demon voice* YOU'RE NOT TRULY AMERICANS
Lol I thought this was a vox video until I realized it was good.
Well said
Vox is still better then Fox
@@yeetusonix9795 No, because Vox and CNN are both fake news. #MuellerReport
TheLibSoc DaHip Then Fox what?
@@pill-poppingnarcissist all news is fake news. News organizations are businesses, and businesses like pleasing their customers. So it would make sense if you told the audience what they liked to hear.
You wanna have a coke?
Yeah sure!
What kind?
Pepsi
Triggered!
Matthew Wagner this comment didn't get the love it deserved
Caleb Wulfekuhle yup
That's why it's called a soda
But I like Pepsi
I call it coke almost everyone I know calls it cokw
*Are you talking about a shrimp?*
Tuxedo omg ikr
I guess they don't have those things in the North.
@@awfullygenericname6783 Yep. I grew up in North Dakota, and we never really saw those around.
@@jumpythehat
I think it may be because it's too cold up there. Pill bugs are not true insects. They need to keep themselves moist and that's why they hide in crevices and wet places. My best hypothesis is they can't find proper shelter and the water in their gills freeze.
Jumpy the Hat, aye! Somebody’s finally from ND!
The Atlantic: Soda vs. pop vs. coke
Me, a Canadian: Soft drink??
Nah that’s generic. As a Canadian I’ve only ever heard it as pop
That's funny, cause I'm from NC and most in central NC say soft drink too. We would not say coke because Pepsi is from there, and pop is what you do to someone running their mouth. Everywhere else I have been says pop or soda.
In my little town we would say "a lemonade" for any kind of soda
Stick to your ginger ale.
Is it still called Canadian Dry? Or is it just Dry in Canada?
I had no idea "freeway" was mostly a California thing
Makes sense. They expect a free ride on every thing.
Over were I live it’s highway and freeway my dad says freeway and my mom says highway I say both
it's freeway up in Wa state also. Seattle is a northern cousin of L.A.
Yeah I’m from California and I was unaware that’s a California thing. I use highway a lot more often now. Saying freeway gets strange looks here.
Nope, highway in Toronto haha
Poor Florida. It's just a mixture of southern and northeastern.
DR. Lime Lemon South Florida is much more northeastern. However they do have a slightly different way of saying things b/c of all the people further down south in the Carribean. Same with the Southwest/ Midwest and the Mexican influence there.
Ironically, north Florida is southern in heritage while south Florida is flooded with northern and Midwestern implants
@@tylerlee232 RIP Orlando. Been there for a couple of years and I couldn't crack the code there.
kaeden le i live in the panhandle near pensacola and we act wayyyyyy different than south floridians
And the further south you go, the further north you get.
Colorado person here, I've never heard anyone say "online" when referring to waiting in a line.
Same, I've lived there my whole life and I've never heard someone say that.
I say that
same
same
And “tennis shoes” that’s what adults say, haha. Sneakers is where it’s at
I was just watching my own state for the entire video.
Devon same Minnesota
Haha. I was too. I'm from Cali
Missouri... 45 minutes west (almost north-west) from St. Louis
@@stephenstone9325 Missouri, in west St. Louis
I'm from Pennsylvania (Philly) and New Jersey (Newark), but I've lived in Washington State almost my entire life. My parents are from the east coast, as is most of my family, who still lives in those regions. So I have a little bit of both coasts in my dialect.
“*a WaStE oF gOd DaMn tImE*” -end beep-
I like that guy 😂
My accent is all over the place! WTF?
What accent do you have?
Same. I’m from western Pennsylvania but I say things differently from other people here and I have no idea where I got any of it from.
Same I have like a California midwest southern accent even tho Im from Chicago.
ella elise I
I have the generic D.C. smarta** accent you know like Brooklyn without the aw sounds and sass
This gave me chills. It just made me feel so connected to the people around me.
There are brands that we generalize as if the items is called that name ex:
Coke: Soda/Pop
Kleenex: tissue
Band-aid: bandages
To name a few
They are brands not the name of the items
"And how bout the oldies who call a napkin a :"serviette"?
I get the band-aid one, but who calls them bandages? When I want a little band-aid I call it a band-aid. When you need to wrap your wound, it's a bandage in my mind.
when call kleenex a wipe
Vasoline instead of petroleum jelly
COKE IS NOT A BRAND. COCA COLA IS A BRAND AND PEPSI IS A BRAND. THE WORD COKE WAS DERIVED FROM COCA COLA BUT NOW REFERS TO A SPECIFIC FLAVOR OF SODA. THE REASON WHY SAYING KLEENEX OR BAND-AID WORKS IS BECAUSE NO MATTER IF YOU SAY THE BRAND NAME OR THE ACTUAL NAME YOU ARE GOING TO GET WHAT YOU WANTED. WHEN YOU SAY COKE AS THE WORD SODA/POP YOU ARE ASKING FOR A FLAVOR OF SODA WHILE MEANING A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FLAVOR OF SODA
I liked this video after you visualized "miracle" with an ultrasound of a baby. That's so sweet of you, whoever editted this, thanks.
Sunshower!? The devil's beating his wife!? I've always thought of it as raining.
Yes it's raining but raining when the suns still out
I just say the sky is being bipolar...I don’t think we have a special name for it(Texas)
El Flan I just call it weird weather
Turtato that seems kinda dumb...
It's just rain to me lol
we... we need subtitles
I understood them perfectly... but I understand that it could probably be very difficult for someone that has a very different accent
Acoustic Garbage Maybe, I'm not a native English speaker but I was able to understand them
Minnesotans: “I’m in no way like a Canadian”
*temperature gets above 30F*
Minnesotans: “aye want to go up north to the cabin this weekend?”
And also stop it with that Lutefisk crap I’ve lived in MN my whole life and I don’t even know what it looks like
You're a sad little man if you don't know what lutefisk looks like but I guess you're not missing much since a lot of people try it and hate it. It's a flavorless taste and is kinda like sushi being raw, you have to cook it just right or it tastes like crap. You have to be a real Scandinavian to eat that stuff.
President Donald J. Trump why are you here
@@TheJudge531 Lutefisk: It will put the fear of cod in you
As a Turkish guy, I’ve been hearing I speak like someone from Northern California and this just confirmed it. Well, I lived in San Francisco for a while but still my English has been developed to its peaking point in Hong Kong. Though the foundation was watching American shows for years I believe that was set in Hollywood.
They say we have a certain type of way with our lingo and vernacular 😂
I like how most of comments completely miss the point of the video. So many comments complain about how a way of saying something is wrong, when the video shows over and over again how different people in different areas simply refer to things differently.
Quintinity yeah it’s a good thing you’re not complaining because there is a comment thread earlier where people are verbally attacking each other, I find it really odd
NERD!
Well no duh but it's pretty weird to use coke as a generic term for soda. Confusing
watertownnative well people say coke as in cola and cola is a other word for soda or pop that’s why there is coke a cola and Pepsi used to be Pepsi cola
They are noting this by playing around:)
In pittsburgh PA, referring to two or more people, some of the older generation says "yinz", though i dont hear anyone my age (19) say it at all. My grandma used to also say "warsh" instead of "wash"
My Grandma used to say WARSH as well but Im from texas..
Indiana here. My grandma said, "Worsh." Come to think of it, I sometimes do too.
yeah, here in Kansas, people say 'warsh' a lot instead of 'wash'... lol
vaginaaaaa Ah yes. I love how Western PA has "yinz" (my dad has a bumper sticker of this on his car, grew up in Youngstown, OH/Pittsburgh area), and in Eastern PA we have "youse guys" (I've let this slip out of my mouth once or twice, unfortunately lmao)
What yous guys up tuh? Jew eat today? I hadda hoagie down by duh crick bot.food Juh grab me a glarss o wadduh from duh spicket? Thank yuh.
You're standing "on-line" how does that make any sense? Are you riding on top of multiple people? Are you surfing the internet?
i was expecting standing in queue
It's an NYC thing.
Standing on Line/waiting in line. Same thing
I’m from Texas and I have always heard it as “standing in line”. Online?! NOPE!!!!!
I'm from Colorado (it said that what we say) and I can assure you nobody says on line here
As a English learning this should be mandatory for all English courses, overseas we have the impression that the Americans speak all like the same and the differences are just pronunciation… this is amazing and very rich
I'm surprise there aren't more people who call it "the metro"
You here that more in Europe and Australia
Smooooth in chile too, we call it metro
Smooooth I usually call it the met. I live right out of NYC.
Smooooth living in murrlan all my life..... the metro.. metro is life
I call it the underground, even though there is no such thing in the pnw.
"the T"
yep that's Boston hahahaha
Definitely 😂👏
Jeez I'm in New England and haven't heard that before.
The L train from mid northern Illinois because Chicago
THe L in philly also
We say "the T" in Pittsburgh
If someone ever comes and tells me they want a coke, I’ll bring them Coca-Cola. If they meant another SODA, I’m bringing them poison.
same
😂 dark humor. I like it.
I would probably get aggravated at the person if they said that they wanted a Coke when they meant a Sprite or something else! That's because when they say Coke, I will bring them a Coca-Cola!
Aww that was fun. I wish there was more stuff like this being done nowadays.
This video really needs captions.
I say yinz
This video is dirty. Warsh it out with some subtitles.
BR Goodie yeah but those are automated, so they’re not always accurate
This is bullying to Hawaii and Alaska!!!
Wish they showed us too
So why don't you guys write for us how you say all these words over there in Hawaii and Alaska?
XD Yea!
You got to touch a state to be a state.
And American Samoa
Y’all need to include west virginia in saying , “y’all”
"What's your drink order?"
I'd like a Coke please!"
"What kind?"
"PEPSI"
I'm from Washington state and I've only heard and called them "rolly pollies"
ItzBlurYo same
ItzBlurYo me too and I'm from Tennessee 😂
Ye me too
i'm from texas and i say doodle bug
I'm from South Carolina and we also say rolly pollies.
Am I the only one that just thinks Minnesota should may as well join Canada now.
Edit: Alright, time to start a petition.
Crimolix are you judging how we speak? I am offended. Uh.😂😂😂
Crimolix Minnesota reppin
Crimolix Believe me, I've lived in Minnesota my whole life and I've never seen a Minnesotan in my life speak like that woman... I thought she was Texan or something like that before she stated where she was from.
Also I've never seen someone call their shoes for Gym "tennis shoes" in my area. The results for Minnesota were disappointing..
Sir Kitty u r no Minnesotan
The South in a nutshell:
"Hey, can you get me a coke?"
"Yeah what'dya want?"
"Dr. Pepper."
...You're not wrong
as someone in the south i get what you're saying, but saying anything else just feels...wrong, like I couldn't imagine calling it a soda or pop or fizzy drink
From NC. Usually goes by soda here
I say soda even tho I’m from the south
These are Amazing, i love learning culture accents its brilliant need more and for the whole world!!!
I'm from Louisiana, and I can confirm that the only drink we call "coke" is an actual Coke. The rest of the drinks we call them "sodas" or just "drinks". Or, what the name of the soda actually is. It just seems awkward calling a Sprite a Coke.
Oklahoma, the only time I've heard any soft drink called a coke was when my mom would say things like "ok, you can go into the garage and get yourself a coke." But if anyone wanted said they wanted soda, they'd say 'soda,' or 'pop.' We never really had a distinct way of saying things, and I think the video kind of shows.
+Bad News Everyone! I'm from West Tennessee and when I was a kid back in the sixties all beverages were "cokes." I remember going to Saint Louis the first time and finding out that only hicks called carbonated drinks "cokes." They called them "sodas." They got a real hoot out of "y'all." As in y'all ain't sayin that right.
+Bad News Everyone! that strictly southeastern and alabamian, South Louisiana barely even southern
+Bad News Everyone! That's not true. I'm also from Louisiana in Greater New Orleans, and I have heard many people refer to carbonated drinks as "coke" my entire life. I've heard "soda," which I use most of the time, "cold drinks," "coke," and, rarely, "soft drinks" in reference to carbonated beverages down here. Coke and soda are most common.
Also, hey! Po-boys! I love how you can see that distinction so clearly on the map. We're so different from everyone else in that regard, haha.
You must be from northern Louisiana. I'm from waaay down south. Like 45 mins south of New Orleans. Raceland. I'm IN the water lol Down here, most white people say soda or coke. I heard one person say pop in Houma.
I'm black. Most (99.9%) of us say what sounds like "coledrank" but what is actually cold drink. To us It's one word tho so if you wanted one that's room temp you would ask for a hot coledrank (hot cold drink). Haha sounds weird when you break it down.
Also, we don't say pecan. We spell it like that of course but we say what sounds like "puck-on" and so we have a puckon tree in our back yard and my Aunty makes puckon candy with the puckons we give her.
'yous'
that sums up some of PA NJ and NY lol
Ivette In the South we say Y'all
I live in Ny and I've never heard anyone say "yous" lol. Everyone I know says you guys
I live in SoCal and I say y'all....
That's Eastern PA.
ThePcGamer yinz is western PA which even though I live in Ohio Pittsburgh’s influence is strong in Steel Country
definitely fit in with the Texan and southern words. I was raised saying coke instead of soda, but I don't know why. Coke is a type of soda...? Still gonna call it coke though.
Coke as in Cola, which basically all Soda drinks are a type of Cola.
I’m from Texas and it’s all a coke
I fit more of Southern as well. (Or Texan but Southern accents and Texas accents are generally similar)
i’m from texas and it’s never coke it’s soda. maybe you’re from the northeast or the west where mostly hillbilly’s reside?
Yeah, cola os referred to as coke here in texas.
I've watched this like 5 times. It's an excellent video.
And Houston, Texas is the only place in the country I've ever heard the access/service road to a freeway called the "feeder." I'm from Houston and I always called it that until I moved away and people were like, "What the hell is a feeder?"
have family in Houston I freaked out the first time I heard feeder btw i grew up in nc
djtrixen Ive lived in Houston all my life and never knew we were the only ones who call it a feeder
trixen wtf you're blowing my mind, I don't know it as anything but a feeder.
Yha, from Houston area as well and always known it as the feeder. What do others call it? Access roads? Sounds weird.
Im from Dallas and we call those roads the service road. lol
DOWN HERE WE CALL DAT A PO-BOY i was genuinely surprised when i saw the we (louisiana) are basically the only people that call it that.
Ya
I have heard ppl in Illanois call it a Poor boy lol
IKR
@@samuelcolt1505 I live in Illinois and have never heard anyone say that
Po boy is a certain type of sandwich tho
The end of the video
We call it a moot (mute) point
We call it a moot (moot) point
I call it a waste of god damn time.
Haha
I'm using this in my ESL class to explain dialects and accents. Great video!
You can not use it for commercial use!
One minor clarification about the box you're buried in- the modern rectangular one is called a casket, where the old type six sided one that you only see in the movies these days is a coffin. Source: a funeral home owner.
+Maxwell Edison HELL YEAH FROM CA I KNEW I WAS RIGHT!
+Maxwell Edison Also, the ones that are not buried and are kept above the ground are sarcophagi (sarcophagus in singular) according to my knowledge.
+IchHassePasswoerter .Blackplant i think it's the other way around "us" is the singular in latin and "i" is the plural
croja07
That's what I meant. I did express myself unclearly though.
It's been called a coffin for a long time in the west.
I get calling it pop and soda, but coke?
Rectorince28 haha my family once went to South Dakota and my mom ordered a Pop without thinking. Neat less to say the waitress stood there for a good minute trying to figure out what my mom meant
Rectorince28 Everyone in my family just calls it "Sodapop"
Kirsten Schardin interesting everyone ive met from south dakota says pop.
Rectorince28 I Have lived in Texas all my life and everyone down here says Coke
Man Of Steel I'm from Florida and if someone told me that they wanted a coke I'd buy them a Coca-Cola. But if someone said they wanted a soda I would say "what kind?" because to me a soda represents a carbonated beverage.
In eastern Massachusetts a soda is "tonic".
And in Ontario, a soda is the same thing, also a soda fountain is where u can get a scoop of ice-cream inside a tumbler of carbonated water and ice. Otherwise we call the carbonated drinks pop/soda or sodapop.
Native Missourian here. I found it surprising that some folks didn’t have a word for roly poly. But I found it even more surprising I don’t have a word for sunshine during rain.
Southern Appalachians, North Carolina
1: Soft Drink
2: Sub
3: P'kaahn.
4: B-a-g, bag.
5: Roly Poly
6: Umbrella
7: Devil's beating his wife
8: Tennis shoes
9: Root
10: Highway
11: Subway (though they don't exist here)
12: in line
13: Y'all
14: Coffin
15: Meeracle
no idea.
My wife is from east Texas and absolutely says that. I'm from South Texas and think it's a silly term. But, yes, it does exist in the wild.
Bohpar Not the fast food restaurant, the underground train system. You have one of those?
Eastern North Carolina, only difference is I say pee-can
Jobey you're from North Carolina and you say yall? How odd! I'm farther down south than you are and I say you guys. American English is crazy, man 😂
Needed to add "wash" "ketchup" and "coffee"
NY: "cooaaffee"
my dad says warsh and my mom (NY state roots) gets on him for it all the time
spooky mad 5 bucks says your dad can't correctly pronounce the name Arthur
No one in my family can with their accents
Chrnan6710 New Jersey moms say cooooaaaafeee the normal people say coughfee
I'm from Wisconsin so I'm just gonna leave this here:
Bubbler
Kyle Behrens Wait what.
Is that supposed to be what you call pop?
@@elijahelkwood5459 Nah, that's what we call "drinking fountains". (It's soda by the way. Pop is a sound)
No.
No it’s not, you Wisconsin’s are weird people
Wtf is that are you talking about sparkling water? I’m from the south btw (South Carolina coast)
bruh, thats only 48 states. I came here hoping to see what it showed for alaska, i guess nothing.
Hawaii and Alaska are conspiracies made up by the US government
worst thing about that is that i live in alaska
@@shinyblu2144 Get off our back NARC
@@hustle6850 o k
You mean 50. With Alaska and Hawaii it'll be 52
As a Minnesotan I never knew we said words like "bag, tag, wagon, etc." differently until I went to other states. It just feels so weird not to say it that way.
bo johnson Y’all need to join Canada.
@@djjordan1342 A small part of Minnesota is only land-accessible by driving through Canada.
And yeah, Minnesotans have a funny accent. I like it, though. It's very friendly and familial. Maybe I just watched too much Bobby's World as a kid.
@@encycl07pedia- we don't have funny accents.
@@Dr.chunkyeyam froam mini soda
Down here in the south, we all just call it soda... maybe coke sometimes, but often times soda.
she _ GET AWAY FROM ME AND MY POP (I’m just joking)
she _ Really? I say pop and I’m from Arkansas
Really? From Louisana and most of us say coke or cold-drink
I'm from both New York and Georgia I heard pops several times down south
in Alabama and Arkansas we call them cokes not sodas
0:59 I love how just in Louisiana you have po-boy
Phenomenal video!!
That was actually really cool. It's interesting how hybridized my personal dialect is, having lived in 3 different regions of the country, with parents who had lived in 3-5 before I was born. No wonder people occasionally struggle to place the accent.
+SkiDaBird Try going to Texas, a lot of cultures that have been mixed. It's so mixed that there is very few people with the original Texan accent. Mine is Hispanic, Fort Worth, middle class. Any small change will create a vastly different dialect. One over arching thing is most of us do say Coke and Y'all, but casually with no emphasis. Hate when actors say y'all, they do it weird and exaggerated. I can tell what part of Texas people are from and which race they are, what there income bracket they are in based on there dialect with 80% accuracy.
I have a similar situation and with my parents. I just kind of picked ways of saying stuff as I liked. Though recently someone from Tennessee thought I was Canadian. I guess to outsiders my upper Midwest is showing, lol.
Ha, Massachusetts doesn't have rollies. We got lobsters?
Didn't expect to see you here! (I'm subbed to you)
Apparently the upper Midwest doesn't have a word for them, which as someone who has lived in MN and WI, can confirm.
Marquis de Lafayette soda is tonic
we also have soda and tonic!
Here in Pittsburgh we have potato bugs.
My family blends in with so many cultures. But we do say y'all and my grandmother is a Texan so her drawl carries throughout and so did my grandfather. So my aunt and my dad has a southern drawl/accent and I just pick up what follows.
this was an awesome video
Weird, I didn't realize how few states say "freeway." I'm from western wa which is one of them but I thought everyone called it a freeway lol
Same here. I was like whooaaa ! lol
Elizabeth Nyberg
I'm from DC, and no one ever says freeway!
aidan c. Weird!!! Most of these I was in the majority but that was the one that surprised me 😳
Same I guess it's just us West Coast peeps
I live in Seattle and I say highway but I do think most people say freeway
They don't have Alaska or Hawaii
Thank you
Rin Bailey ikr
Frl
They only care about the bottom 48
They don’t exist
As someone who grew up the first half of her life in the south (Texas and Colorado) and the later half (currently) in NY and Philly, this is FASCINATING (and spot on)
Would you say colorado is in the south though?
@@christinac4197 Used to be until the the great weed migration.
Love this. Wish the audio was better.
Plenty of people say soda including me in the Midwest. But I can't wrap my head around why it's called Coke in the south
Where I'm from (Houston Texas) we just call it soda
Serenity Hamilton Yeah it doesn't seem to be Texans as much. I think it's more like Georgians and stuff.
We are usually more specific or at least I am.. But tbh Ive heard only coke and soda down here in TN.
your from big city props not represeentetaive of south
im schleep Aww, us Georgians aren't that bad. I don't understand any of the weird pronunciations you guys use, though... I just really hate stereotype we have with being stupid and with the strong accent. Everyone in Georgia has a southern accent, but it's just more intense in some people. The stereotype you guys (or should I say y'all? Meh it seems to ruin the point I'm trying to make) associate us with we hate too. Annoying as hell, but they don't make up all of us like everyone else thinks.
Calling all sweet carbonated beverages "Coke" seems ridiculous. How would you know what specific kind of soda or pop you want if every type is called coke?
Bryon Letterman if you want to specify actual coke you say Coca Cola. Coke means nothing where I live. It's a broad term. When I'm at a restaurant I say I want a coke and they say which one? Then you specify the brand
Bryon Letterman well in Texas we say "hey wanna coke" or "do y'all got any coke" and when they say yes they will say what kinda coke you want? Dr.pepper mt.dew or coke?
Cassie Corona what are you a austinite
Bryon Letterman yeah we don't say that in Alabama, we call it soda and we say what kind specifically at restaurants and such. I don't know where everyone gets the impression that we call all of it coke lol.
"Coke" meaning Coke product. As an Atlantan, the only Pepsi you'll ever find down here is Dr. pepper. People say "coke" because it's implied you are a restaurant that sells coke products. The response if you don't is "is pepsi ok" to which the response is "hell no, but whatever" (or the more appropriate "is Monopoly money ok?")
If people want dr. Pepper they'll say want dr. Pepper but otherwise we just say coke because if you ask for a random soda that's what your gonna get- a Coke product.
Me: *someone from Louisiana and refers to subs as po-boys*
Subway employee: why do I hear boss music?
Popeyes calls it this
I noticed “Freeway” is far more common on the west coast. “Expressway” is more common in the Northeast.
And highway is more common everywhere else.
we say parkway or highway in NJ
shoulda done caramel vs carmel
I live in Tennessee and say both depending on what I'm talking about. Like: Carmel corn, and caramel sauce
I think everyone around the world pronounces this differently
Caramel simple! You can’t ignore the second ‘a’!
caramel
From NJ And it's definitely CARAMEL lol
How is nobody commenting about amazing it is to be seeing so many different people from all over parts of the country who have probably never met each other getting along like lifelong pals? It gives me hope for the world.
I don't think it was a group call
wow, thanks for including alaska and hawaii
We need part 2
What about shopping carts? Who calls them baskets or buggies? I moved to south long time ago and worked at walmart as door greater. People ask for a basket so i would hand them 1 the hand baskets. Then they be no 1 the baskets with rollers on it. Like oh a cart with wheels. Some would say buggie and id tell them what isle baby strollers were in. People hated me. I ask for pop at mcdonalds and employees holler at manager and ask what pop is cause they cant find a pop button on register.
Years ago when I worked retail I was asked if we had "wagons" and I told the woman, 'no we don't sell those" and she said 'you charge people to use wagons!?!?' - I then realized she wanted what we down south call a "buggy" (or what most would refer to as a grocery or shopping "cart.") I love hearing new regional words and accents.
I call it a cart.. or carrito. (Texan)
Buggy- Isn't a buggy a type of go-cart or small car?
Basket- The little basket you carry around the store when you only have a few items to buy.
Amy Velasquez pretty sure everyone says it like that idk what this guys talking about.
In middle tn we call shopping carts buggies. When i hear basket i think of the thing you carry around with you.
Oof ive only heard buggie or cart and i live in Pittsburgh
Imagine if they also included Alaska, Hawaii, and the island territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, etc.)! I bet those answers would be interesting. Although in Guam, we just call rain-with-sunshine "Guam weather" haha
I've spent my entire life in NY and CT and have always said standing ON line.
Caskets and coffins are two different shapes, a casket being rectangular and a coffin being narrower at the feet and wider at the shoulders
Thank you for the video, very useful for English learners. Greetings from Europe! 😘
The Chicago in me is really showing now. To be honest, I had no idea that exclusively around the Midwest area, not many people called them gym shoes. I have been calling them that my whole life.
I feel you
+Gina Kameron Yeah, me too, that's hilarious. Everybody else calls them sneakers or tennis shoes. By the way, did you go to "cahllege"? LOL!
+Paul y most people in the midwest go to cawlege
Im from northwestern indiana and we have a specific dialect. A weird combination between chicago and indiana accents. Theres actually a pretty obvious difference even if you drive just 3 hours south to the capital.
sMaShEdToMaToS Purdue and Terre Haute area, and past Indy?
Im from Tennessee, in the Memphis area. My folks taught me how to speak “properly” so although i use a southern vocabulary I usually speak with a tv accent.. unless I’m talking too fast
I throughly liked this video.
People say coke for any soda?
Misaki yata it's only in the south
In the south ppl will understand like most of south Texas say coke
+WiredNetwork Technologies...depends on what part of the South. Not all Southerners say that. I'm from KY and it surprised me the first time I heard someone refer to Coke for any soda. That's so weird to me.
I do but I guess I'm from texas so
yeah
Tf says online when they’re in line
I’m from/in Colorado
Edit: I spelled they’re wrong
100 Subs same lol I’m from Colorado and my parents say that I’m pretty sure it’s a dying term because the phrase online now just means to be on the internet
Was looking in the comments to see if anyone else noticed this. I'm not a native but been here in CO 8 years and was confused by that haha
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh yall dint see me
Dude it’s “they’re” not “there”
I’ve never heard of on line...WHAT (i’m a CO native
Me being from Harlem, NYC it's a Hero, a Soda ("Coke" is my fave soda), sneakers, sunshower (but y'all can't hear me speak), really don't ever think I had a typical "New York" accent. I have sort of a mixed NY, "ethnic" (African American type) & Southern accent ? From being around so many different folk (oooh that could be another - do you all say "people" or "folks" ? 😆
Video: "At least 10 distinct dialects of English are spoken in the United States"
Indian: "Oh that's cute"
10 "distinct" doesn't mean that the variety of accent even within a region can be very different.
@@williamwall3403 What they meant is that India doesn't just have many dialects, it's got hundreds of native languages (correct me if I'm wrong, but it's definitely a very large amount).
@@deviladvocate21 You do know that there are over 500 different languages spoken in the United States correct? Unlike most other countries we don't have an official language. The two dominant languages English and Spanish comprise mostly, but on packages, more than 20-30 languages are used for user-manuals.
@@politicalstatus197 yeah well pretty much everyone speaks English in America (maybe some only speak Spanish but it's still just 2 languages), almost all the other languages don't have a lot of speakers and are dying
@@politicalstatus197 They aren't native languages though, and here in the UK we also have manuals that contain basically every single language you can think of, doesn't mean that many people speak them that aren't immigrants.