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

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: 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...

Say hi to Bo and Luke for me! And could you do me a favor? Pass my number on to Daisy... I owe her an explainantion about why I ran out on her like that that morning.

 

[JujuFish]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: JujuFish

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
My Bio lab partner told me to tawss the sample and get a new one. I was all , 'till my other lab partner said toss.

Um, what?

She's a New Yorker. We fucked up part of the lab so she was suggesting that I "tawss" it and start over. I didn't know WTF she was talking about until it was pointed out to me that she meant "toss."

Do you need me to help you burp after you're done eating too?

You keep saying she meant "toss" but you're not explaining how you're expecting it pronounced.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: JujuFish

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: JujuFish

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
My Bio lab partner told me to tawss the sample and get a new one. I was all , 'till my other lab partner said toss.

Um, what?

She's a New Yorker. We fucked up part of the lab so she was suggesting that I "tawss" it and start over. I didn't know WTF she was talking about until it was pointed out to me that she meant "toss."

Do you need me to help you burp after you're done eating too?

You keep saying she meant "toss" but you're not explaining how you're expecting it pronounced.

She said it with a New York accent, I wasn't expecting that. Never heard a New Yorker speak?

 

[Mo0o]

I had no idea crick was a way to pronounce creek...

 

[CorCentral]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
I had no idea crick was a way to pronounce creek...

You're such a Preek!......... I mean Prick j/k

Creek/Crick----- I've heard both pronunciations and it just depends on which state you are in, and in what county.

 

[Leros]

There are a handful of words I say weird just to annoy people.

creek: crick
route: root
root: ruht
pecan: pea-can
mosquito: skitter
etc

 

[LtPage1]

I fell off my ruf when I saw the woof crossing the crick. Luckily, a big pile o' punkins broke m' fall.

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
One of the infamous Pittsburghese words said in these parts. I do say it, though I have different definitions of it. A creek to me is a stream big enough that a bridge should be constructed over it if a road goes through it. A crick is a tiny trickle of a stream that you can pretty much step over, like I had in the woods behind my house growing up.

*shrugs*

Exactly. Same usage distinction here in SW Pa. too.

Don't you mean SE Pa.?

 

[nanette1985]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

And no, I don't speak like that at work or if I have to give a presentation. But if I get pissed off or otherwise agitated I will slip into rural Ohio dialect.

ZV

Same here. Funny thing is when my kids slip into rural Ohio - and they've never been there! I moved out twenty years ago and haven't been back.

 

[bobsmith1492]

My cousin does; she's from Arkansas. I say them interchangeably and like someone said, "crick" is "crick" and "creek" is "creek" - two different words for a stream.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: 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

eh i live in western NY, moved here 11 years ago, took me almost a year to figure out WTF people were talking about when they said crick


a "Crick" is something you get in your neck when its stiff

a "Creek" is small flowing waterway

 

[punkdork9]

I work with people that say Crick......and it drives me nuts....

 

[lokiju]

That is nothing compared to how many people in songs say "chew" instead of you.

So annoying IMO.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: lokiju
That is nothing compared to how many people in songs say "chew" instead of you.

So annoying IMO.

I luv chew Fergie!

 

[FoBoT]

regional dialects
no big deal

some of the mountain states 'crick' is common

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
One of the infamous Pittsburghese words said in these parts. I do say it, though I have different definitions of it. A creek to me is a stream big enough that a bridge should be constructed over it if a road goes through it. A crick is a tiny trickle of a stream that you can pretty much step over, like I had in the woods behind my house growing up.

*shrugs*

I don't understand this one...


4. How do you pronounce the second syllable in pajamas?
Rhymes with jam
Rhymes with father
Either
Don't know

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
regional dialects
no big deal

It is a big deal. If we couldn't make fun of each other over regional dialects we would have to go back to making fun of each other's religion and race. People get all pissy about those things.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: 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

eh i live in western NY, moved here 11 years ago, took me almost a year to figure out WTF people were talking about when they said crick


a "Crick" is something you get in your neck when its stiff

a "Creek" is small flowing waterway

I thought you get "kinks" in your neck when it's stiff.. is this another dialect thing?? lol

 

[nakedfrog]

It's only a crick if it's a really small creek.

 

[meltdown75]

depends which creek i am referring to...

ie. Dawson's Creeeeek like the TV show

or some 'crick' from back home, like Jeanette's.

 

[Q]

Poll needed, and no

 

[ktehmok]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Originally posted by: 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...

Say hi to Bo and Luke for me! And could you do me a favor? Pass my number on to Daisy... I owe her an explainantion about why I ran out on her like that that morning.

Please. Like you would have a chance w/ her. Even hilljack wimmin have their standards.

 

[blackbishop26]

as a matter of fact i do pronounce it crick and i say color as collar as well, any problems with that?

 

[dainthomas]

My wife watches Paula Dean on the Food Network. Every third word is "y'all" (and I can barely understand the other two). I want to reach through the TV and club her like a baby fur seal. So annoying. :|

 

[JujuFish]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: JujuFish
Besides, "up shit crick without a paddle" sounds better than "up shit creek without a paddle".

Yep, even if it's spelled Shit Creek.

Uh, no one's arguing how it's spelled.