Help on britspeak?

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., catherine at c... wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> > catherine at c... 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.
> > 

Whoops! I didn't realise that the above sounded as though I was 
saying Coke was a generic term for all fizzy drinks, not just cola.  
The generic bit refers to pop only, and Neil is right, if the drink 
isn't coke, we are more likely to say soft/fizzy drink.

Catherine, who hopes that she hasn't confused the issue even further.