It’s not just where it’s spoken that makes the word “pop” so Midwestern, but how it’s spoken. Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune Ben and Perry Feigenson were a pair of Russian Jewish ...

the word was not part of the scene’s vocabulary in the 1980s. It was more common to hear phrases like “pop, dip and spin” and “work,” they said. Guy Trebay, who has covered voguing since ...

Read more: 17 Discontinued Sodas We Aren't Getting Back While the word pop may be from the sound of old fashioned glass bottle lids popping off, etymologists are not in agreement about how ...