A rose by any other name…

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1) …is soda.

2) …is pop.

3) …is soda pop.

Conclusion: Dorothy, you’re not in Kansas any more!

One comment

  1. pooh says:

    When the 1939 World’s Fair was in NYC, my dad was a lad of 12. He heard the tourists from the Great Lakes area* talking about “pop”. He thought it was a brand name, and wanted to try some of the Pop soda.

    *What are the demarcations of the pop/soda/sodey/cola naming conventions?