It's been that way a long time.
Getting ready to be shipped to the US, in Bremerhaven Germany in 1950, (before there was a Sprite that Coca Cola Co. started it in 1961) I heard a soft drink peddler announce what he had and mentioning among other items, "limonade". Not sure why I remember that.
Expand your world, Drook! :)
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov