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Answers (41)
I use creek (krēk).
Being educated in Alabama, we were all taught about the Creek tribe in elementary school. So, I guess we learned the proper way to say the word. The Creek were a Native American people formerly inhabiting eastern Alabama, southwest Georgia, and northwest Florida and now located in central Oklahoma and southern Alabama. The Creek were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s.
Depends on what part of the country I am in.
Creek.
C-R-I-C-K.
it depends who im around. in public, i still sound like a redneck perty bad, but when im near kinfolks and friends it gets much worse. i dont do it on purpose, so in public its creek, near kinfolks and friends is crick.
None of the above. We call em brooks or streams...
...That is, in New England. In AZ we say creek.
Depends on who I'm talking to.
We are always debating this... crick
dude, its creek
dude, its creek
Creek, man.
depends on the creek...or crick...
creek.
crick
Seems like everyone in Wyoming calls it a crick except me but I am not a native. I also never knew that a named creek/crick could spend most of the year as a dry ditch down a mountainside until I hunted in the Rockies.
creek
Depends on size.
If you can step across it, it's a "branch".
If the bottom is more sand than mud, it's a "sand branch".
If you have to jump across it, it's a "crick".
If you have to wade across it, it's a "creek".
If you need a boat or swim to cross it, it's a "river".
Ala East Texas!!
Bubba
Appears to be pretty close just depends where you are. I will use crick in Deep South, creek other places.
It's a creek. A crick is what you get in your neck from sleeping wrong.
FirstBubba's definitions are pretty close to how I make the determination. Also the audience has something to do with it. I don't use the word "crick" when talking with my professors or clients.(unless they do first)
English is a symphony of many notes and each has a time and place. From Shakespeare to Blackdawgz (miss him) the rich spectrum of communication is one of the things that makes life more fun.
I call it a creek.
On the topic of other regional names for them:
-kill (from the Dutch, so it's the Bushkill, not Bushkill Creek, if you want to be pedantic).
Run (i.e. Mud Run, Bull Run)
Gut (small tidal creek, ran into the term in Eastern North Carolina, for example Wynn's Gut)
well said, chuckles.
South of Rout 66, it's crick.
North of Root 66, it's creek.
I think.
I was in Nevada several years ago mule deer hunting, and on the way to the ranch we crossed a nice creek and I asked my host what creek that was and he called it a river. So I guess that creek is pronounced RIVER in Nevada.
Funny aside about that. He and his wife came to Alabama around Christmas the same year and I took him on a tour of where we deer hunted. He was amazed and asked how'n hell we ever saw a deer with all them trees. We crossed the Tennessee river in Decatur and he asked what lake that was. I explained that it was not a lake but the river. I don't think he believes me to this day that it was not a lake.
An old farmer told me it only took one cow to turn a creek into a crick.
both,...there's a difference.
As a matter of interest, there is a place in northern Minnesota near the town of Walker, where it is possible to step completely across the Mississippi River. I don't recall that anyone said it was a branch, but it would probably be classified as a tributary.
99E
You are upside down on your Route 66.
Silly rabbit, Cricks are for Yankee's.
WAM,
The word "route" is pronounced differently, just as the word "creek," in different parts of the country. I was trying to get them aligned together geographically.
Are you disputing the geography or the pronunciation?
What part do I have upside down?
I dunno. My niece came up here from Texas and looked at the creak that crosses my place and called it a bayou.
foot note ; my brother went down there and married one of them soutern gals.
When water comes out of the ground it forms a stream.
When streams merge they form creeks
When creeks merge they form rivers.
At least that's how I have always figured it.
WAM, I agree. I live in the North, and everyone I know says "Crick". Including me. But I have caught myself saying creek more than once.
The biggest difference may be in the city vs. country
usage.
I say both. Never twice in a row.
Ed J
That would make him a G%^$damn Yankee then,
(smallest to largest)
runnoff,crick,brook,creek,stream,river,... HA what do ya think about that!
007 is right where we are it is a crick. Anything bigger is a river.
we call it creek in Michigan
i call it a creek but my dad calls it crick?
I guess it just depends
Creek. Also Stream or Brook is appropriate.
A Crick is in your neck, not something you fish in.
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Depends on size.
If you can step across it, it's a "branch".
If the bottom is more sand than mud, it's a "sand branch".
If you have to jump across it, it's a "crick".
If you have to wade across it, it's a "creek".
If you need a boat or swim to cross it, it's a "river".
Ala East Texas!!
Bubba
It's a creek. A crick is what you get in your neck from sleeping wrong.
I use creek (krēk).
Being educated in Alabama, we were all taught about the Creek tribe in elementary school. So, I guess we learned the proper way to say the word. The Creek were a Native American people formerly inhabiting eastern Alabama, southwest Georgia, and northwest Florida and now located in central Oklahoma and southern Alabama. The Creek were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s.
Creek.
Creek, man.
FirstBubba's definitions are pretty close to how I make the determination. Also the audience has something to do with it. I don't use the word "crick" when talking with my professors or clients.(unless they do first)
English is a symphony of many notes and each has a time and place. From Shakespeare to Blackdawgz (miss him) the rich spectrum of communication is one of the things that makes life more fun.
When water comes out of the ground it forms a stream.
When streams merge they form creeks
When creeks merge they form rivers.
At least that's how I have always figured it.
C-R-I-C-K.
it depends who im around. in public, i still sound like a redneck perty bad, but when im near kinfolks and friends it gets much worse. i dont do it on purpose, so in public its creek, near kinfolks and friends is crick.
None of the above. We call em brooks or streams...
...That is, in New England. In AZ we say creek.
Depends on who I'm talking to.
We are always debating this... crick
depends on the creek...or crick...
creek.
crick
Seems like everyone in Wyoming calls it a crick except me but I am not a native. I also never knew that a named creek/crick could spend most of the year as a dry ditch down a mountainside until I hunted in the Rockies.
creek
South of Rout 66, it's crick.
North of Root 66, it's creek.
I think.
I was in Nevada several years ago mule deer hunting, and on the way to the ranch we crossed a nice creek and I asked my host what creek that was and he called it a river. So I guess that creek is pronounced RIVER in Nevada.
Funny aside about that. He and his wife came to Alabama around Christmas the same year and I took him on a tour of where we deer hunted. He was amazed and asked how'n hell we ever saw a deer with all them trees. We crossed the Tennessee river in Decatur and he asked what lake that was. I explained that it was not a lake but the river. I don't think he believes me to this day that it was not a lake.
An old farmer told me it only took one cow to turn a creek into a crick.
Depends on what part of the country I am in.
dude, its creek
dude, its creek
Appears to be pretty close just depends where you are. I will use crick in Deep South, creek other places.
I call it a creek.
On the topic of other regional names for them:
-kill (from the Dutch, so it's the Bushkill, not Bushkill Creek, if you want to be pedantic).
Run (i.e. Mud Run, Bull Run)
Gut (small tidal creek, ran into the term in Eastern North Carolina, for example Wynn's Gut)
well said, chuckles.
As a matter of interest, there is a place in northern Minnesota near the town of Walker, where it is possible to step completely across the Mississippi River. I don't recall that anyone said it was a branch, but it would probably be classified as a tributary.
99E
You are upside down on your Route 66.
Silly rabbit, Cricks are for Yankee's.
WAM,
The word "route" is pronounced differently, just as the word "creek," in different parts of the country. I was trying to get them aligned together geographically.
Are you disputing the geography or the pronunciation?
What part do I have upside down?
I dunno. My niece came up here from Texas and looked at the creak that crosses my place and called it a bayou.
foot note ; my brother went down there and married one of them soutern gals.
WAM, I agree. I live in the North, and everyone I know says "Crick". Including me. But I have caught myself saying creek more than once.
The biggest difference may be in the city vs. country
usage.
I say both. Never twice in a row.
Ed J
That would make him a G%^$damn Yankee then,
(smallest to largest)
runnoff,crick,brook,creek,stream,river,... HA what do ya think about that!
007 is right where we are it is a crick. Anything bigger is a river.
we call it creek in Michigan
i call it a creek but my dad calls it crick?
I guess it just depends
Creek. Also Stream or Brook is appropriate.
A Crick is in your neck, not something you fish in.
both,...there's a difference.
Post an Answer