[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Help on britspeak?

[Amanda Lewanski]

catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk wrote:

> Most English people would call the brown fizzy stuff coke, regardless
> of whether it is coca cola, pepsi, whatever, (a bit like Hoover v.
> vacuum cleaner) although a few may say cola and oldfashioned people
> may say pop, but this is more generic.

Yaaay! I *knew* there was a reason I liked you foreigners! Using "coke"
as a generic term for carbonated drinks is an odd Texanism, so far as
I've observed over here. Yaaay! I do something the way the civilized
world does! (sorry, that should be "civilised," yes?).

--Amanda, who loves that "hoover" is a generic in Britspeak. Jello,
kleenex, and band-aid are other common ones over here.

What's a jacketed potato? A baked potato?
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