What do you call this?

I've discovered one of those weird breaks in American English. Like when you find out there are people in the country who refer to soda as "pop".
Do you call what this child is doing a split or the splits?
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It looks like he''s hoversplitting to me. I''d call that the hoversplits.

I call it unnatural. In his future I see lowered sperm count.

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A split

Splits

splits eh!

Canadian version

Hoversplits!!! Ha!

splits

oh and its pop.

Pelvis splits.

I call it scary.

Soda''s are cokes. Doesn''t matter the brand or the flavor. Just Coke.

""Hand me a coke.""

""I don''t have coke, would Dr. Pepper do?""

""That''s what I said - hand me a coke.""

The splits.

Looks like he''s only doing the one. ""A split"". I''m off for a soda.

He''s doing the splits. Unless he''s in mid-air, in which case it''s a split jump (not a splits jump).

Anyone who says differently is flatout wrong.

Hoversplits, nearly had my coffee go through my nose on that one.

Painful?

Something I can never do?

Uncomfortable?

The choices are endless.

oddly I used both and I use to be able to do a/the split(s). I couldn''t hover though.

Used to be in gynmastics - heard it both ways.

""Help, I''m stuck like this. Do something!""

"ralcydan" wrote:

The splits.

and Coke is Coca Cola!
soda is any form of pop.

coke...generic for soda...BURN HIM!

and pepsi is only drunk in Quebec!

LOL @ Rat Boy

"groan" wrote:

and pepsi is only drunk in Quebec!

Only because the alchohol is so strong up there.

Actually there is probably some martial arts name for what he''s doing. I seriously doubt the master said ""Today Grasshopper, you learn ''the splits''"".

He is doing a split, and the correct term is ''soda.''

Splits and soda.

the splits, and soda, pop or soda-pop.

Whatever it is, Subservient Chicken does it too.

The splits.

And it''s soda.

The splits and coke. Maybe soda, never ever ever pop (or paap as it is inevitably pronounced).

What about cola?

In the deep south it is referred to as col'' drank (pronounced cole).

Soda. I''ve used cola before, but only when I actually want some cola.