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Of soda, pop, and "coke"
An awesome map: "Generic Names for Soft Drinks by County."
Why, I wonder, is Boston a partial holdout from the near-universal New England preference for "soda"? Simple demographic diversity?
(I don't get the "coke" thing at all.)
(Via Matthew Yglesias)
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Joshua Rothman is a graduate student and Teaching Fellow in the Harvard English department, and an Instructor in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He teaches novels and political writing.
