I’ve heard that in Arkansas.
Pascagoula, MS is where I’m from and I called all soft drinks “cokes.”
Do you mean you’ve pretty much heard drink used to mean any carbonated beverage, or Coke to mean that?
Drink.
To be clear, I do hear Coke used as a generic word for soft drinks, but that’s mainly because Coke is actually what people usually want to drink. I’ve never in my life heard anyone use the phrase “what kind if Coke do you want”, nor have I ever heard someone reply with “what kind” when a Coke is requested. Mostly, people here seem to be very specific when talking about soft drinks.
As a Northerner who’s traveled a bit in the south, I got to ask what Labrador’s been smoking. Even I know how you make sweet tea. And it is not the same as puttin’ sugar in your tea. Different beast entirely. Course, all y’all know that.
Me, I favor an Arnold Palmer, myself.
Edit: Oh, yeah, I’ve traveled in the ‘cold drank’ zone myself.
What are you talking about? I made it pretty clear that Sweet Tea means sweetened iced tea. Unsweetened iced tea with sugar sitting at the bottom of the glass is not the same as sweetened iced tea.
Y’all aren’t from around here, are you?
When I moved down south, I started drinking iced tea, sweet and unsweetened. I liked both equally. It was my drink of choice when I didn’t drink something alcoholic.
I remember flying to Montreal to visit my Dad. (he lived in Vermont, about 90 miles away). on the way home, we stopped at his favorite Chinese Restaurant just across the Canadian border from his home. Without thinking too much, I ordered iced tea. The waiter gave me a perplexed look, he came back with hot water, a tea bag, and small glass with one ice cube.
I should have just ordered a beer.
Barbarians.
:rolleyes:
My version of sweetened iced tea is generally 1/2 packet of the pink stuff per glass, so I’m pretty horrified if I end up with sweet tea. It’s undrinkable for me.
I stopped putting sugar in tea many years ago because I got tired of the funky, gritty feeling it leaves on my teeth. I don’t know if anyone else notices it, but once you do? Ecccchhh.
I’m in Memphis and a Coke is any soft drink. You say you want a Coke and you’ll get “what kind?” in response most places I frequent.
My ex-husband referred to sweet tea as “The Elixir of Life”. It was his go-to hangover cure.
Oh, for the other discussion: I’m in Ohio and a pop is a pop. My husband from Kentucky called all pops “soft drink.”
Well, I clearly remember people in TX saying ‘all y’all’ when they were talking to more than one person, so apparently some folks use y’all to refer to one person.
But is TX the South or not?
Depends who you ask. Some people say it is, and some say it’s just Texas. And I hear “all y’all” quite often, but never y’all as singular.
The email I mentioned stated “Y’all is always singular”, which is nonsense. It may happen occasionally in Texas, but it’s a rarity at best throughout the entire South.
Texas is a country unto itself. 
I have no cite, but there is supposedly a dialect in West Texas that uses y’all in the singular. I do, but I have no idea where it came from.
Bless your heart.
Me too, I’ve been in N.C. for 20 years.
When I was going to college at Texas A&M, some of my friends from various parts of the state insisted that a Coke was any carbonated soft drink, and Soda was just some silly thing I said (which was doubly odd to them because I’m from Texas myself, I’ve just traveled outside the state a lot growing up I guess).
So I’ve had this conversation happen:
“Hey, you wanna coke?”
“Sure!”
“What kind?”
“Diet.”
“Diet what?”
“… Diet Coke. What do you mean “Diet What”?”
“Well, you just said you wanted Diet. You coulda meant Diet Pepsi or Diet Dr Pepper…”
“But we were talking about Coke!”:mad:
No.
“Y’all” is plural. “All y’all” is used for emphasis/clarification to mean “each and every one of you (not just some subgroup)”. The usage of “all y’all” does not mean that “y’all” is singular.