Tell me about it...I live in Western PA, where we say "pop," but I go to school in Eastern PA, where they say "soda," so I face great pressure to adjust my vocabulary accordingly as I got from place to place...what a difference 350 miles makes.

I live in central PA, and we just say "drink".

God knows there's a soda machine in this neck of the woods that works.

The real name is 'tasty beverage'.

Around here we use soda, pop, and soda pop interchangeably.

What kind of sick place do you live in?

I just call everything by it's name to avoid confusion. Dr. Pepper when I want a Dr. Pepper, Pepsi when I want a Pepsi, etc.

Up here in Canada (eh?). We, or at least I, say coke. Like "Can I have a coke."

A similiar link to this was posted long ago and it was just as stupid.

I drink Monster and Sobe. But I got $100.00 from Red Bull in a marketing research thing. It was cool.

amesbr, see if you can guess: we call drinking fountains, the kind where you press a lever and cold water shoots out in a stream, "bubblers"!

Hell?

It's cold as hell, I'll give you that!

So that means it's hot? Or are you doing the whole Elton John thing?

To drag this out too far, I used hell as a meaningless intensifier, like Bernie Taupin did.
For hell to be literally hot it would have to exist first.

Coincidentally, when I googled "in fact it's cold as hell" just now, to make sure I was about to spell Bernie's name right, the first hit was someone's blog talking about how cold it is here in my mystery location. Try it yourself if you really care what sick place I'm in! =)

Wisconsin!

Ya, hey.