A Person from One Part of the United States Might

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Multiple Choice

A person from one part of the United States might ask you for a glass of "soda", while a person from a different region might ask for a glass of "pop"; a third person might ask for a "coke", while a fourth would request a glass of "tonic". All of these individuals want the same thing, but the variation in how they request it demonstrates a

• A)dialect.
• B)colloquialism.
• C)semantic error.
• D)phonemic shift.

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