Anyways, me and Kharvik were agruing about this, and it made me wonder..what do you call it?

I usually call it coke, even if it's pepsi.

soft-drink, or fizzy-drink if I am talking to my nan.

I'm with softdrink.

You're short a lot of options I think.

Softdrink.

So its softdrink, not soft-drink? I've never been sure.

It's soft drink over here, but Elryn wrote it funny so I thought I'd play it safe.

"-" is my friend.

It's primarily a geographic thing.

"Pop" is the norm where I live (central US). I'll bet 10 credits that Ralshan lives in the southern US. (I spent five minutes with a Houston waitress once trying to get a drink. I wanted to know what kinds of pops she had. She gave me a blank look. "You know...pop! Soft drinks? Soda pop?" Eventually, she said "Oh, you want coke?" And I was all "No! I want to know what kinds you have," because I really dislike plain colas, and I didn't know that "coke" to her was more than a cola brand name.) "Soda" is more common on the US coasts. Brits, from what I hear, call 'em soft drinks (and it's the only place you'll hear fizzy drink...wierdos.) The Aussies I talk to all just seem to call it whatever you call it.

Yeah, we call it fizzy drink too, but soft drink's more popular.

fizzy drink, lemonade (whether it's actually lemonade or not), or sometimes soft drink

I call it fizzydrink (there, no hyphen!) too, it's not just the English (I'm Australian).

Soda

Wrong my English brethren, only shops and posh people call it soft drinks. Fizzy drinks. Or I usually just call it what it is, but if I was generalizing them, fizzy drinks.

Softdrink is posh? I'm Australian, I don't even know what posh is and I call it softdrink. It's just the proper way.

Yeah, the regionality of it all is interesting. By point of confirmation, I did in fact, live in Florida most of my youth, up till 18. I remember once we went back to Massachusetts, where I was born and my mother lived her whole life, to visit some friends of hers. My younger brother was maybe 5 at this time, and my mom's friend offered him a "tonic", that being the word she'd use for a generic fizzy beverage.

My brother about broke into tears on getting a glass of coke because he thought he was getting some kind of special new thing he'd never heard of before.

Hm, as far as I am aware "pop" is Canada wide, uh its short on options because those are hte only terms I have ever heard, add em up if you can.

I call it pointless Soda always made me thirsty back when I was young and drunk the stuff. It was like drinking candy - I always needed milk/juice afterwards or I became dehydrated.

Eww...I call it pop (like most people in Canada).

Even though I don't drink any POP.

When I'm in the Northern South (Read: Islands off the south coast of Florida. Har. Go Union!) I say "soda". When I'm up north visiting family, I say pop. I tend to adapt to the local terms.