Do you cringe when people say soda instead of pop?

I say soda 🤷🏻‍♀️

Did you ever see a can or bottle of it labeled as “pop”? No, it’s labeled as “soda”, but in some places it’s called “pop” and in some places it’s called “Coke” (regardless of the actual brand name).
The word “soda” is derived from the use of bicarbonate of soda to produce bubbles. It was first called “soda water” as early as 1809. but then changed to “soda” by dropping the word “water".
“Pop” is derived from “soda pop”, a shortening of it made by dropping the word “soda”.As early as the mid 1850s, it started being called “soda pop”.....either because of the “pop” sound made by the bubbles, or as a shortening of “phosphate” which the soda jerks working the soda fountains called them (the “soda” in the soda fountain would be what people now typically call a shake).....even though phosphoric acid is used in a minority of carbonated beverages (including “Classic” Coke) to give a slightly more bitter flavor.
Neither “soda” nor “pop” is inherently wrong, though neither is the term that was originally used.

I usually call them by their names. "Hey, you want a mt dew?

Dew the dew...

I don't like either term. I say "soft drink" or a specific term like "Coke".

And you're from the Midwest (or there abouts). That term was something that I had to get used to out here. I grew up in the heart of Pepsi country and they always use "cola" or "soda."

Both make me sit up. It's a soft drink or a Coke down here.

I'm Ireland we call them minerals or soft drinks 🤷‍♂️

I just say coke (I usually drink coke) or soft drinks 🤷‍♀️

I no longer cringe at hearing "soda." I grew up hearing and saying "pop," and when I was in junior high, a kid moved from another part of the country where "soda" was the prevalent term, and we became good friends, so I got used to it. In my early adult years, I went through a period where I said "soda pop" just to confuse people.

Both words are cringe-worthy. It's called coke (then you specify the type)

I heard 'pop' when I was a kid in upstate NY. Don't think I've heard it once in California.

I would love a pop right now

Or when they just say “ I’ll have a Pepsi” but mean any other pop

Opposite, I cringe at pop lol it's soda

I grew up Northeast, soda. I now live in Michigan, pop. I still say soda.

I’ve always used the word soda.

No. But I’ll always say pop.

we say 'soft' here..

I say soda.

I'm the opposite. Pop makes me cringe. Bad reminder of those boys from Ohio

We say pop in Michigan

I say both but I hate when people pronounce it 'sooda'.

No.

I am not hypercritical of minutia.

@SW-User really I drink too many of the bloody things

Everything is coke. Unless I want something specific like Dr Pepper, Fanta Orange, or Cheerwine. Don’t drink Pepsi. Yuck.

Don't worry, the reverse sounds just as weird over here.

We just go for "cola" or "orange lemonade", who on Earth gives a fuck about short terms in the first place? As long as it's not "pee".

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