<div dir="ltr">Pop was Californian for all soda drinks when I was a kid in Merced, and it seems to remain the universal referent outside of the Bakersfield area. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Bekah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bekah0176@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">bekah0176@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
At the tender age of 16 I moved from North Dakota where we said "pop" to California where everyone in this area said "coke." The area around Bakersfield may be "in" California, but it's "of" Oklahoma - not so much these days and "soda" has crept in - but not "pop."<br>
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On Jun 6, 2013, at 8:21 AM, Ian Livingston <<a href="mailto:igrlivingston@gmail.com">igrlivingston@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I once asked for pop in upstate NY, and got a blank stare. Being from west of the Appalachians, I was at a loss for how to ask. When I finally stuttered out soda pop, the guy suddenly got it that I was asking where in the store to find the sodas.<br>
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> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Ian Livingston <<a href="mailto:igrlivingston@gmail.com">igrlivingston@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> In Missouri it's "you 'uns"<br>
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> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:14 AM, <<a href="mailto:kelber@mindspring.com">kelber@mindspring.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> My husband grew up in Texas, but later his family moved around a lot. A couple of years ago, he encountered some drunken Texans in a bar, and they asked him to prove he was Texan by answering one question: What's the plural of "y'all?" He passed the test easily. "All y'all."<br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
>> From: Dave Monroe <<a href="mailto:against.the.dave@gmail.com">against.the.dave@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> Sent: Jun 6, 2013 11:02 AM<br>
>> To: pynchon -l <<a href="mailto:pynchon-l@waste.org">pynchon-l@waste.org</a>><br>
>> Subject: Y'all, you all, or you guys?<br>
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>> <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336660/Yall-you-guys-Dialect-maps-showcase-Americas-linguistic-divides.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336660/Yall-you-guys-Dialect-maps-showcase-Americas-linguistic-divides.html</a><br>
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>> You say tomato, I say soda. Or is it pop?<br>
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>> <a href="http://web.ncsu.edu/abstract/science/you-say-tomato-i-say-soda-or-is-it-pop/" target="_blank">http://web.ncsu.edu/abstract/science/you-say-tomato-i-say-soda-or-is-it-pop/</a><br>
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>> Pop<br>
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>> <a href="http://www.popvssoda.com/" target="_blank">http://www.popvssoda.com/</a><br>
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