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Growing up in FL I had no accent...and called everything a "soda" or referred to it by its proper name - ie Pepsi, Mountain Dew, 7Up, etc. (perhaps that's what the "other" category is).
Going to school in NC (the western part) and coming back home, my friends made incredible fun of the new accent I (supposedly) picked up.
Moved out here to Charlotte, and there is definitely a different type of southern accent out here. Whenever I head back to the mountains, I can hear the way people talk and realize how different it is now that I'm not around it every day. Friends back home say I have lost most of my accent.
Supposedly there is at least another NC accent floating around this state somewhere...haven't heard it yet.
People here look at me strangely when I offer them a soda. They say, "You mean a coke?" I say, "No, I mean a Pepsi, 'cause that's what I have and it tastes better anyways."
Whenever we go down to Charleston, it's a completely different accent down there. Almost fake sounding....like a forced lilt. I don't know how else to describe it.
I worked at a restaurant in college and waited on a table from Georgia one day. I asked what they wanted to drink. They all said "Coke" simultaneously. I said, "Is Pepsi alright?" ('cause that's what that particular establishment served) and they all shot me this look like they were going to kill me. "We're from Georgia. We don't drink Pepsi." Whatever.
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