How do you pronouce 'creek'

[LynneSin]

If you say it as 'crick' you're probably from somewhere in the Mid-Atlantic region of the country.

[Kali]

1. wash

draw

canyon

[Bake]

2. CREEK -- not "crick" -- and I'm from Kentucky by way of Tennessee!

But I make it stretch into two or three syllables!!

:hi:

Bake

Oh, I almost forgot ... I heard Geddy Lee says "crick."

:rofl:

[geardaddy]

3. "creek"

[lutefisk]

4. stream

When "creek" is used (rarely), it is "creek".

[HERVEPA]

5. Crick. (from Phila.) But I DON'T say Iggles.

[LynneSin]

25. How many syllables in Acme

:D

[HERVEPA]

6. Crick. (from Phila.) But I DON'T say Iggles.

[guitar man]

7. It depends

"Creek" is the name of the Native American tribe a lot of my friends belong to here. "Crick" is the little stream that runs through the woods ;)

[LeftinOH]

8. "Creeque":

[RedCloud]

9. With my mouth?

[pokerfan]

10. creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!

How do you pronounce 'been?'

[pokerfan]

11. How do you spell 'pronounce'

:P

[fishwax]

12. :)

[pokerfan]

14. :hi:

:hi:

[Avalux]

13. Crick. Central PA. n/t

[fishwax]

15. Usually creek, but sometimes crick

Pretty rarely. But I know I've said it. Never in conjunction with a name--I would always say the creek in Big Goose Creek with a long e; but sometimes in a phrase like "down by the creek" it might come out as crick.

[Lionel Mandrake]

16. How do you pronounce "Watson"?

[libodem]

17. I know it is like *reek

But it comes out crick. I've been corrected for using an r sound in wash. I don't hear it.

[LynneSin]

24. first president of the United States

George Worshington

At least that's how I always pronounced it

:cry:

It's a Central PA thing. Damn those Pennsylvania Dutch!

[marzipanni]

18. I have a crick in my leg

Could it be water on the knee?

[Iggo]

19. CREEEEEEEEEEEEK.

Like that.

[Silver Swan]

20. We used to pronounce things differently.

About sixty years ago, we lived about forty miles from that cereal town in Michigan, and we called it Battle 'Crick.'

It seems that when we finally got a television, our pronunciation became more mainstream.

[Shagbark Hickory]

21. Usually I pronounce it "crAck" as so many places are named _____ creek around here.

Such as John's Crack.
ex: Let's go to that new restaurant in John's Crack.

The rest of the time, it's creek unless I'm talking to the dogs then it's cweek.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

22. Sometimes call it a "run" nt

[rurallib]

23. actually both depending on the use (iowa)

Wapsie Creek
or
'down by the crick'