[Genoa]

“Crik” is a typical Northeastern U.S. pronunciation of “creek.” I suspect that large numbers of New England settlers came from parts of England where that was the usual pronunciation.

[Genoa]

“Crik” is a typical Northeastern U.S. pronunciation of “creek.” I suspect that large numbers of New England settlers came from parts of England where that was the usual pronunciation.

I say this because going back along my maternal line, they are rural New Englanders by descent. My mother and her mother said "crik." (For speech, I look to the women, who are the ones from whom children learn most of their language.)

[wordsofearnest]

Here in southern Indiana we would use a camera to take a pitcher of a crick.