What word do you use for 'soft drinks'?

Coke

Weird, considering that it's a brand, yet it's used as a general word for soda-pop.

Soda, pop, soda pop and club soda (in the case of unsweetened soda water).

Coke is synonymous with cola in most places in North America.

Kleenex is a brand but most people know what you mean when you ask for a kleenex.

Soda

had a friend who used to call it "Soda Water" when i lived in Texas.

Kleenex (facial tissue), Q-tips (cotton swab), Band-Aid (adhesive bandages), Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid), etc.

Coke

I say "carbonated beverage" each and every time that I refer to soft drinks.

I've lived in Texas all my life and have never heard anyone call it that.

But not all soft drinks are carbonated. Like, Kool-Aid is a soft drink, but you'd be flatout wrong if you called it a carbonated beverage.

Pop duh. All the rest are wrong.

isnt this an old topic revival??

Not even a little bit.

I usually talk about a brand name soda specifically (Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, etc.). Otherwise, I call them drinks.

Pop

Soda-Pop was its original reference.

People over the decades have made it just "Soda".

Soda is what things in the realm of Coca Cola and Pepsi are called.

Pop is use by weird people in america and canada. Not very many people use pop.

Soft Drinks if you want to be politically correct. But Soft Drinks include more than the term Soda generally accounts for. For example Teas, chocolate milks, and energy drinks arent sodas, but they are soft drinks.

Coke if you life in illiterate places of America and are really trying to say soda.

we get one of these every 6 months.

Toilet cleaner

Soda.

Pop. Anyone who says otherwise is just plain WRONG!

Coke or Soda.

No. You are wrong.

Pop because thats how it is in ohio!

I call all soft drinks "nonalcoholic beverages". And I don't think you care about my location for I am what you would call a statistical anomaly or an outlier, relative to the scope of your statistical interest that is.

I generally say Pop or Coke.

I actually say "soft drink".

Would you like a "carbonated beverage" with that?

I would say Coke as a general term for soft drink even when there is Pepsi or RC Cola on the menu.

I usually say pop or soda or sometimes more specific I.E. coke, DP, Dew.

soda

@k2theswiss: my HS football coach called it soda and he was from Ohio. He asked the students in his US history class what we called soft drinks and when everyone replied soda he was surprised because he thought soda was an "Ohio/ Mid west" thing.

Soda

Not coke. You ask for a soda. Saying coke is silly. You say soda or pop or anything other then coke. Kleenex or q tip or whatever are not an equivalent example. Never ever ever ever ever ever say coke. Ever eve ever ever ever. The ONLY reasonable exception is for generic off brand cola

Now OBVIOUSLY the normal thing to do is to use the actual name for the soda you want, but that's beside the point

Why is Coke not one of the options? Anyway, I say either soda or coke.

It's not weird at all. QTip and Kleenex are used as generic terms also when those are brands.

No no no no no no no no no

Coke is not the same as Kleenex

lol...

I can't fathom the pro-coke mindset

Like does coke as a general term refer to stuff like dr pepper or Mountain Dew

Yes. It's commonly used as a general term for sodas.

That's insane

Sometimes I say pop and sometimes I say soda. What I don't say is give me one, because I don't drink pop and haven't in almost a year.

No it's not. That's a southern thing.

I am glad LJ is on the side of sanity

coke

The right side of history

Not in my parts. You ask for a Coke and that's exactly what you get. They won't ask you what kind of pop you want because you just told them by saying Coke.

That is the first time I have ever heard of somebody calling Kool Aid soft drink. I have heard it called Kool Aid, Ghetto Juice and juice, but never soft drink.