Soda or pop? How to refer to your sugary drink

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Soda or pop? It all depends on where you live

For those of you still wondering whether to say "soda" or "pop" when referring to your?sugary drink, one researcher took on the trouble and analyzed Twitter data to answer your question.

Live Poll

What do you call soft drinks?

• 187206

  Soda

  41%

• 187207

  Pop

  40%

• 187208

  I call everything Coke!

  19%

VoteTotal Votes: 3058

Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter, geo-tagged every tweet with the mention of "soda," "pop," or "coke" to see who was saying what, where. (And yes, any tweet that specifically referred to Coca-Cola was taken out.) So what did he find: "Soda" rules the two coasts, "pop" is king in the Midwest, and the South only drinks "coke."

Chen on his blog also compared his data to a similar?study?done in 2002, which showed that "pop" was much more prevalent in conversations coast to coast. And when he compared it to tweets worldwide, he found that "pop" is really only said in Canada and the U.S.

Check out Chen's infographic and figure out what's most commonly said in your part of the country ? it'll save you from looking like the idiot still saying "pop."

Edwin Chen

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Source: http://bites.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/09/12644936-soda-or-pop-how-to-refer-to-your-sugary-drink?lite

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