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Actually, since my choices in drink are somewhat limited to diet I just tell a waiter or waitress "whatever you got that's diet.."

I have over my lifetime lived in so many parts of the USA that what I generically call a carbonated beverage is quite random. I've been heard to say "soda", "pop" or whatever sometimes in the same sentance! ;-)

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