Crick or creek? How do you pronounce it?

[Copejunkie]

Crick here. A creek is a noise

 

[Toadman005]

Creek.

 

[AlaskaGuy]

Crick here. A creek is a noise

We say 'crick'.

 

[Hard2Bluff]

Creek

 

[DieSonneTeufeln]

Crick

 

[RuffledFeathers]

Well, I think some on here are more familiar with crook, or creep.

 

[Hard2Bluff]

I always thought Crick was a northern/Midwestern thing. My buddies in North Ohio say crick

 

[OldDevilDawg]

creek

 

[Copejunkie]

I always thought Crick was a northern/Midwestern thing. My buddies in North Ohio say crick

I think you are partly right, people up north of me call it a creek. Everyone I know around here calls it a crick. Creek just sounds odd and weird to me.

 

[AlaskaGuy]

I think you are partly right, people up north of me call it a creek. Everyone I know around here calls it a crick. Creek just sounds odd and weird to me.

Obviously they're communist.

 

[Toadman005]

Obviously they're communist.

You calling me a Commie?!?

 

[pooods]

it depends

is it a crick or a creek?

 

[Copejunkie]

it depends

is it a crick or a creek?

Definitely crick.

 

[PSUTE]

Crick is smaller than a creek. Think a single spring/seep feeding the crick which runs into the creek...

 

[RuffledFeathers]

Our street signs label them creeks, and old surveys (300+ years) show creek.

 

[RuffledFeathers]

Crick is smaller than a creek. Think a single spring/seep feeding the crick which runs into the creek...

English colonies designated small waterways that could float a canoe as trade routes (fur trappers) and the waterway belonged to the government. These were typically known as creeks.

Some of our big creeks, here, are called rivers in other states.

 

[MarineUKFan]

Creek.......cause I'm civilized

 

[midcal]

Creek.

 

[DieSonneTeufeln]

Creek.......cause I'm civilized

Who told you that?

 

[OldDevilDawg]

Who told you that?

Senior Drill Instructor R. Lee Ermey. Sumbitch told me the same thing. He said "Don't be like them damn uncivilized Army doggies."