*Naw I say “pain meds for headache”
*Nope, Tissue.
*Nope, if they go to bing or w.e, I say “dont do that, I said google, not bing, or yahoo”
*nope, call it shipping wrap. many types of shipping wrap, bubble wrap is just the most iconic
*naw I call them cotton swabs.
*no bandaids here, bandage.
Soda is wrong. It is a vile abomination. Give everyone who asks for Soda a box of baking soda, or a club soda. that’ll teach em. Soft drink, Pop, Fizzy Drank. Dat purpa stuff (referring to grape flavoured softdrinks). Anything other than Coke or Soda. A coke, is a coke, when its actually a coke.
Although I’m from Minnesota where we call casserole hot dish. Thankfully my mom is not originally from Minnesota so we never picked up that awful habit.
People that say soda are the only ones who are right, unless it’s specifically a coke. Coke is coke. Not pop. Pepsi is not coke. Pop is some weirdo thing howdy doody would say in the 50’s.
So I shouldn’t ask for A&W cream soda? I should ask for cream pop? Cream soft drink? Cream fizzy drank?
Fun fact for all: Carbonated water - Wikipedia look in that list of aliases. Among them is “Soda Water”. Now look at the ingredients on your container of carbonated beverage. Right at the top is going to be “Carbonated Water”. Aka “soda water”. Hence “soda” for those of us that call it that.
bubble wrap is a type of shipping wrap, just as bandaids are a type of bandage, and kleenex is a type of tissue, I don’t get what you’re on about, the whole “bubble wrap” was just an example
there you go just failing left and right… those are all brand names you just stated. Those aren’t the name of the items in question. Bubble Wrap is a trademarked name of a product. Kleenex is a trademarked name of a product, Bandaid is a trademarked name of a product.
well yeah. I say shipping wrap instead of bubble wrap, are you not parsing what I typed out? or has the inclusion of the example confused you as to what terminology I use?
Further questions for you:
What do you call Dry Ice? how about Linoleum floors? or when your washer/dryer is broken and you head to your local Laundromat… or if you’re a kid of the 80s/90s and you had a vhs or video tape…
i’m quite sure you call these particular items by those names here, their main/popular manufacturer brand names, rather than what the product is or by other manufacturer product names, as these common names above are/were also trademarked product names.
Well I wouldn’t want anyone to confuse what I’m looking for when the can only says “A&W Cream Soda” not “A&W Cream Soda Pop”. Don’t forget “pop” is also short for “popsicle” and someone might try to bring me a carbonated cream popsicle.
“Pop” is also slang for “dad” and I’d really rather not someone make that mistake.
Pardon, I didn’t respond to this at first.
Carbonated Water, or “Soda Water” came out of a “soda fountain”, where “soda jerks” mixed in the flavorings, creating “flavored soda water”. Eventually the “soda fountains” did the mixing themselves, but it’s still “soda water” getting mixed with the flavorings.
This thread serves to teach us all just how dumb the English language has become. 10 different names for everything, and all of them are both correct and wrong at the same time.
lol yep. But that’s what makes english fun, we can have inane pointless arguments over Soda vs Pop vs Coke, instead of screaming at each other on whos politician is better.
been here 40+ years, from corpus to san antonio to houston to dallas and not once heard anyone call every meat sausage or every mexican food taco.
it’s bad enough outsiders think we all ride horses to work, we don’t need this too.
