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Saturday, May 12, 2007

Map of words used for "carbonated beverage" in USA, by county

"Using the World Wide Web to gather and process data from across English-speaking North America, I intend to plot the regional variations in the use of the terms 'Pop' and 'Soda' to describe carbonated soft drinks."

Link, via this post on Gadling. (Thanks, marilyn terrell)

Update: Whups, we posted about this way back in 2002! (thanks, Ian)

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