It's everywhere. Growing up in California it was soda. Moved up to Washington and it was pop. I was so annoyed with it when I first moved...

It's not a southern thing...it is "pop" in Indiana, too.

Too funny!!

Not just a Pennsylvania thing.. My dad came from Washington D.C. and he said "warsh" all the time.. He said it was a Baltimore (or Balamore, if you will) thing and that most people native to that area add the "r".. The sad thing is that since I grew up with it, I do it too, unless I really concentrate on saying it correctly..

I'm from Nebraska and also say "pop"..

Well, I'm Canadian and I say "soft drink". My Irish/Canadian relatives all say warsh.

In my part of Ontario, the old farmers often have a pop after they warsh their hands in de zink ... the one in the back kitchen of course.

Speaking of pets and baby talk -
I sure did get inundated with it yesterday evening at a friend's house. It was remarkable how a person can switch from normal speech to a mixture of poor grammar and baby talk when talking either to or about the dog. "Awww, her wuvs her blankie." Puke!!!

I didn't talk to my kids in baby talk but I do call my cat Kitty Witty cause it irritates the crap ouf of my daughter.

My word peeve is "irregardless" because it isn't a word.

Oh and I can't stand it when someone needs to "axe" me a question or they are "finnado sunten." (fixin to do sumthin taken to an even worse level)

Tiki.

I'm from Ontario, Canada and I say Pop, not soda.

Some words that stand out when used are: ain't anywho axe me

My boss can't stand when you say "shutup" and my mom goes wild when she hears "whatever" with the additude the kids have.

I am officially a "dude" to my daughter. I thought dudes rode horses on ranches......

I grew up in Tennessee and said Pop. While in the military and bunking with a lot of New Yorkers I switched to Soda and it's been soda ever since.

Dude is a part of my vocabulary that I should probably ditch. Dude and Dudette!

My daughter's favorite word is like. "It's like she can't like, you know, finish a freakin sentence without saying like and it's like totally driving me crazy!"

Tiki

My grandma has thrown me for a loop a couple of times. She once asked (axed?) me to get something from the Kelvinator. Huh?!??? And once told me "Its in the Press." Uhhh, should I run down to the local newspaper and get it? Nooooo, press is a closet. Kelvinator is a refridgerator. Ohhhhhhhhh...otay.

My greatgrandmother had a Kelvinator so that wouldn't have thrown me. too funny!

GUILTY! My son calls me Pops but will say Hey father when he is asking a question sometimes, I call him son and dude. I usually say "What up Dude?" when he calls. Bad habit I got into when he was younger and all the kids were using Dude. Daughter calls me daddy, I call her sweetie pie ~ nephew calls me U.G., I call him Knucklehead ~ I call my step-daughter Squirt, she calls me Gary.

I drink soda. I usually have one right before I put my dogs Nite-Nite

RUTH, thanks for explaining the capitals! That always confused me .