Soda or Pop? Couch or Sofa?

Soft drinks and couch here. Interesting to learn about other cultures and language across the world here.

My aunt lived in eastern NC all her life and called a car trunk a boot. We call it Coke or Pepsi or whatever it is, and we sit on a couch. But we call lunch dinner and dinner supper. We've lived in eastern NC for many years.

Being an Army brat I tend to use either of the terms as I've know people who've used both terms for soda pops and sofas or couches, it just depends on who I'm talking to and of course whether or not those items are ever discussed.

I call a soft drink a soda and the piece of furniture a sofa most of the time and a couch some of the time.

I think it's couch and soda here in NYC. Though I've heard pop and sofa used here as well.

NJ and its soda and a couch.

I live in Oklahoma, and growing up I always called a soft drink, a “pop”. I don’t know when I switched, but as an adult I have changed to calling it a “soda”. Going by what I hear, I think most Oklahomans use the term “pop”. As for the other, I’ve always called it a “couch”.

We are the same as you, pop and couch. We have cousins in Michigan, and they say soda and sofa. Of course they say that we have an accent, so what do they really know? Michiganders have a very distinct accent.

I’ve lived in so many places that I use more then one just depending on my mood. I usually say soda and couch.

Soda and couch here (originally from NY but now living in PA).

People drink pop and sit on a couch. I'm in Alberta

I am from Wisconsin but currently live in Illinois, although I was born in New Jersey and have lived in many states throughout the country... Translation? I'm lost. lol In any event I call it a couch and I will drink a soda. I do call a water fountain a bubbler though. Not that you asked. But I thought I'd throw it in there.

My family always said soda and sofa. I think it's a different term for different areas of the country. I still say soda, I probably always will for some reason I'm not sure of. I have rather converted some for the other word and now often I say couch, not sure why except more people say that here than sofa. Words can be weird.

Soft drink is soft drink here, and furniture pictured above is a sofa.

I'm in the UK - specifically, the Midlands in England. Even within the area, there are differences between what people call things. Soft fizzy drinks are 'pop' (I think that's the most common in England). I wouldn't call it soda because soda, to me, is soda water (which is fizzy but it's not pop). That item of furniture, I would call a sofa or settee. Couch is used by some people but I can't say I hear it a lot where I live. There are lots of words that we have around here that are different if you go a little further. There are certain words that we know are used in certain general areas but there are some you can pinpoint to very specific areas because, although they'll generally be understood everywhere, they're only used within a couple of towns.

a soft drink is a pop for me.

I live in southern Missouri and call a soda a soda but understand when someone calls it "pop'. (I think most people here call all sodas "Coke", no matter which brand/flavor they're actually talking about.) I use couch and sofa interchangeably.

Mine is exactly the same as yours

I call it a couch. I find it interesting what people call common things in different areas of the world. I called it pop while I was growing up. It changed to soda shortly after I moved from Wisconsin, but occasionally, I call it pop. I'm from Green Bay, Wisconsin, the only state that puts pasta in their chili.

I could call a soft drink either soda or pop... and the furniture I would call either/or.... So nothing specific I guess!