In Western Washington, it was pop, here in Northern California it is soda. There: I had a daveno (sp?) while I grew up, because it opened up into a bed, but when we got rid of that we got a couch. Here we have a sofa. I live on a gravel road. There we would have called where I live now, 'out in the country'...here we call it 'just outside of town'. There we did the wash, here we do the laundry. There we had dinner and supper, here we have lunch and dinner. There neighbors would drop in and gab, here they call first - most would never invite themselves. There when you talked about going out for coffee, it meant coffee. Now it just means a generalized something to drink. Which is probably just a generational thing.