crick....
Yeah...I wonder why Hollywood and some others try to pan that off as “southern mountains hillbilly speak”??
We’ve never said it... :o)
crik
My mother had a couple of brothers who moved to Indianapolis. When they came back home, their young’uns, my cousins, called it a crik. We laughed at them.
Also, Mama told of neighbors back in the late 40’s / early 50’s who would move up north, Cleveland, Detroit for jobs, coming back in a couple of months and already adopting Yankee-speak and trying to correct their friends and family for the way they spoke.
Around here it’s pronounced “branch” ;>)
Hollywood Appalachian and Hollywood Southern provide me with a source of amusement. Especially considering that they come from people who go, like, uh, Southerners, uh, like, y’know, talk funny.