I'm Aussie too, Laneth.

I'll say whatever I feel like calling it at the time, though.

I call it coke. And I"m not from Southern US.

Soda. I'm not sure what people were smoking when they came up with the rest.

Pop here. Soda was more of an east coast thing, when I lived there. Never heard of fizzy drink, tonic is so 1800's, soda-pop is odd to hear, and what was that other one again? That was wierd too.

Hi-potion.

Nice, cuber.

probably should add Soft Drink

Soda. Until you get to western PA for grad school and they insist it's "pop" ...

"Pop" is a noise.

It also solves problems (sometimes) by identifying the drink/brand more specifically. Or by saying caffeinated beverage, because if there's no caffeine ... what's the point?

Yeah, apparently I have the RP Buckinghamshire accent though, which I was pleased to know, so for you silly Hullfolk that counts as a posh person. Heh.

Because caffeine makes me sleepy?

Grew up in midwest, US= "pop"
Lived in Atlanta, Georgia (birthplace of coca-cola, btw)="coke"
Now live in Southwestern US="soda"

I visited Dallas, TX awhile ago and I mentioned to a store clerk that I was getting a pop and she said, "You're not from around here are you? Everyone around here, calls it coke."

I call it soda, and I'm from around Philadelphia. It is an east coast thing, I think. Pop sounds like it's from a 50s movie, and you can't use coke because what if you want a sprite?! This brings me confusion. I always get confused for a split second at work when someone orders a pop.

This relates to it, but what do you call a hoagie? This is a hoagie... http://www.cooksrecipes.com/recipe_pics_3/...rian_hoagie.jpg ...

They call them sub sandwiches in some places (like..subway). But here we call them hoagies.

Always called it soda, even when I lived in Missouri.

Tonic (tonic water) is something else entirely (preferably containing quinine and preferably accompanied by gin).

That's a hoagie (approximately 6-8 inches long). A Sub is 12 inches or longer .

I call them all hoagies, regardless of size.

I just say whatever I'm getting...

"I need a Coke"

"I need a root-beer"

"I need a Sprite"

etc etc etc

35 votes and I'm the only one who calls it Fizzy in the Hizzy? Where are you all from? Mars?

How'd you know?

Daganev, you actually voted for my added option? Heh heh...

And Veonira, I still think it's wierd when my family calls it hoagies. I was born in Pittsburgh, but then moved to the west coast, where they are sub sandwiches.

Where I come from (New Zealand), we almost always call it either "fizzy drink", "soft drink" or "Coke" (even for Pepsi, Budget cola, etc.). I think of "tonic" as what BobStar said, and is generally drunken with gin, and "soda" is just weird tasting fizzy that is pretty uncommon (except creaming soda ).

The new "ice cream flavoured" stuff brought out as Fanta is strange... You can't have water-based drinks which taste like orange chocolate chip ice cream!

Raspberry Coke, which was just released a few days ago here, isn't what I expected -- it's too fruity. I was waiting for it to come out for ages and taste like the stuff you (kids) can get in bars -- Coca-Cola with sweet raspberry syrup. Yum.