Does anybody here seriously pronounce 'creek' as 'crick'?

[BrokenVisage]

Minor pet peeve of mine, but only because I don't understand why some people would forgo what seems to be the proper pronunciation in favor of a word with an entirely different vowel sound.

 

[glenn1]

Someone from Philadelphia asking questions about pronunciation - that's rich.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Nah. No one does that in this part of the south. One of mine is the way people around here pronounce acorn (eh-kirn).

 

[vi edit]

If it has a name (like when you drive over it on the interstate) I say creek.

If I'm on some farm ground and going fishing it's a crick.

 

[irishScott]

Nope.

<--------Northern VA

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
If it has a name (like when you drive over it on the interstate) I say creek.

If I'm on some farm ground and going fishing it's a crick.

I hate you.

 

[Eli]

Crick sounds normal to me, but I say creek.

 

[Rubycon]

No worse than people saying "nekkid" for naked.

 

[jme5343]

LOTS of people here in Kansas do. Not me. They also say root as ruht. It's not worth arguing about.

 

[Farang]

I hate when Southerners sound completely normal.. nearly no accent at all.. but then they'll say "far" instead of "for." "What do you use that far?"

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: glenn1
Someone from Philadelphia asking questions about pronunciation - that's rich.

I bet you're not one to talk, some Virginians got that bass-ackwards southern draw mixed in with your own charming speech.

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Minor pet peeve of mine, but only because I don't understand why some people would forgo what seems to be the proper pronunciation in favor of a word with an entirely different vowel sound.

They are two different words that mean the same thing.

Like flammable and inflammable

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Minor pet peeve of mine, but only because I don't understand why some people would forgo what seems to be the proper pronunciation in favor of a word with an entirely different vowel sound.

They are two different words that mean the same thing.

Like flammable and inflammable

Inflammable means flammable?! What a country!

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Minor pet peeve of mine, but only because I don't understand why some people would forgo what seems to be the proper pronunciation in favor of a word with an entirely different vowel sound.

They are two different words that mean the same thing.

Like flammable and inflammable

lol wtf?

 

[djheater]

My Mom and her family (kin) are from Hazard Kentucky. they say crick, yonder, warsh, etc.

One of my cousins called and my Illinoisan wife couldn't understand a word, pretty funny...
Accents are funny things...

 

[Savij]

Dear thread,

Everyone in here, including me, sounds weird to somebody. You are all, including me, completely ingorant because of your dialect. Please stop talking.

 

[Anubis]

yes everyone in western NY does and they sound like morons

 

[Savij]

Originally posted by: Everyone not from New York
yes everyone in NY does sound like morons

Originally posted by: Everyone not from X
yes everyone in X does sound like morons

 

[GeekDrew]

/me says it as "creek." the vast majority of the people around here pronounce it "crick."

 

[everman]

No I am not from Appalachia.

Reminds me of: http://video.aol.com/video-det...-comes-home/1006723244

 

[glenn1]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage

Originally posted by: glenn1
Someone from Philadelphia asking questions about pronunciation - that's rich.

I bet you're not one to talk, some Virginians got that bass-ackwards southern draw mixed in with your own charming speech.

I grew up outside of Philadelphia, so I can speak from experience that they're not exactly speaking the Queen's English in the City of Brotherly Love. Case in point - Jeetyet?

 

[MotionMan]

That sort of is one of the questions here.

MotionMan

 

[miketheidiot]

the hicks in rural ND say crick sometimes.

 

[nocash]

Sometimes I catch myself saying crick, but know better. But Im in West Virginia so I'm allowed. Crick sounds normal to me unfortunately, crick would be a very small farm stream. Creek would be a larger crick

 

[JujuFish]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
If it has a name (like when you drive over it on the interstate) I say creek.

If I'm on some farm ground and going fishing it's a crick.

That is essentially the same with me.

Besides, "up shit crick without a paddle" sounds better than "up shit creek without a paddle".

The word originally had an i instead of an e.