Re: General American (was "y" and "r" (Uusisuom))

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Barry Garcia wrote:
>> Ugh, i hate hearing people say "pop" for soda :). Of course, out here in
>> California we say soda.
>
><wry g>  I prefer soda myself, though in Korea, "cola" (or something like
>[k^hola]) can be used generically for carbonated drinks; it weirds me out
>occasionally, but then, I've gotten in the habit of asking for fruit
>juice.  :-p

I grew up with pop, in the midwest; lost it when I went East for high
school-- "soda" then; a few die-hard New Englanders still used "tonic", and
even fewer IIRC "moxie", which was a brand-name.  Tried it once. Yuck.

In my youth there was a distinct difference between "Milk shake" and "Malted
(milk)", the latter being very thick.  Never could find a decent malted in
the East, just the thin gruel they (in Boston anyway) called a frappe (pron.
[fræp] despite its French appearance).  A genuine malted milk was similar to
what the fast-food people call a "shake", but those are just chemicals and
soy products.