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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by kbrackbill on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @03:26PM (#36232154)
We had an almost identical bug, also at Microsoft, when I was working on Hotmail (it may have been Outlook.com by then, I can't remember): POP, the email protocol, was localized into UK English as DAD.
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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by hermitdev on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @03:45PM (#36232448)
I find POP->DAD a little odd, because I've never (as an American) heard anyone say 'pop' referring to their father. 'pops'? yes. Now, POP->SODA, would not surprise me in the least.
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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by vram22 on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @05:12PM (#36233650)
It's an older generation thing. See Pop Tate in Archie comics [1], for example; the soda fountain guy. Guessing it's probably derived from Papa, like Pa, Paw (hillbillies), etc.

("Hillbillies" not meant derogatorily.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Comics

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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by lmm on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @06:53PM (#36234786)
"Soda" is even more of an americanism than "pop". ("Fizzy drink" is the only term I've ever heard used in the UK).
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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by udp on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @08:05PM (#36235396)
“Pop” gets used in the UK sometimes but I’ve only heard it in northern England. Never heard Soda anywhere in the UK though, apart from the specific case of cream soda.
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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by physicsguy on Thursday June 08, 2023 @03:15AM (#36238365)
Pop is common where I live in the Midlands
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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by firstlink on Friday June 09, 2023 @11:14AM (#36259066)
It's always confused me why Wikipedia calls its UK language version "simple English".
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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by toast0 on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @07:15PM (#36235007)
Didn't read Dr. Suess's treatise on patricide, Hop on Pop, I guess.
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Re:Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English by suspectdoubloon on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @07:48PM (#36235274)
In Aus I use Pop to refer to my Grandad who was british. I do think it was to help with confusion with which grandparent I was referring too, was it my dads dad or my mums dad
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