I worked at a movie theater through college, the first time someone from the
South asked for "2 cokes, a diet coke and a sprite" I thought they wanted
four dirinks, but in fact they were using coke as the generic term for a
sugary carbonated beverage.
I believe we ultimately got it worked out and the young lady ended up by
asking the question "don't y'all a call 'em cokes up here?"
I am still trying to figure out how those in the areas where the term is
common differentiate between the generic and specific coke, if I want a
specific coke do I ask for coke coke?
Can those of us from the part of the world that use this term this way
enlighten me?
By the way when it hovers around zero in the midwest for a couple of weeks
we refer to it as "too damn cold to work on our cars" which it is right now
by the way, hence all the time spent on y'all.
Greg Lemon
54 BN1
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