Posted by Jon on February 08, 2005 at 19:46:22 from 151.121.50.1 user Jon.
In Reply to: Re: "soda" has regional meanings posted by JLabaree on February 08, 2005 at 15:48:20:
I've found, and the distributions from the Pop vs. Soda web survey agree, that New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, especially, prefer "tonic". And among the natives I encountered (college in Maine and grad school in RI, as well as vacations in RI growing up, with relatives still there) pop was more common than soda. I will agree though on frappe. And most of Connecticut doesn't count as New England. They support the Yankees, for Pete's sake! Infiltration, I suppose.