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catherine@cator-manor.demon.co.uk wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><tt>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.</tt></blockquote>
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?).
<p>--Amanda, who loves that "hoover" is a generic in Britspeak. Jello,
kleenex, and band-aid are other common ones over here.
<p>What's a jacketed potato? A baked potato?</html>