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Originally Posted by nipper
I travelled to Arkansas once, and everyone there called it "sody." I thought you Northeasterners called it "tonic."
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Referring to soda/pop as tonic is very localized to the Boston area and is not used much any more. I know a couple of older people from Boston who still say tonic but most people say soda.
Like Willy says, tonic is mainly tonic water that you mix with gin even to Bostonians now.