Incidentaly, something I have been thinking of for a while.

How come you watch movies in the 'states while we watch films in the UK? I think you also go to the movies while we go to the pictures or, sometimes, flicks. I can see where movies and pictures both have the same root in moving pictures but I find it odd how the phrase has mutated differently acrss the Atlantic.

Is the same true for soda (US) and pop (UK)? Do they both stem from soda pop?