A Person from One Part of the United States Might

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.