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Is it a Crick or a Creek?
Crick 27%  27%  [ 6 ]
Creek 59%  59%  [ 13 ]
I'm from Chicago and don't know things 14%  14%  [ 3 ]
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 Post subject: Crick or a Creek
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You Chicago folk can take your soda vs. pop discussion and STICK IT!!!

Is it a crick or a creek?

Or do some of you uncultured heathens consider it a stream with your fancy $20 words?

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Is that where you do the Warsh?


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Is that where you do the Warsh?


At times. Also have ensurance for my canoe.

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Worship was the one that got me.

They are clearly saying warship.

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"Crick" sounds like a hallmark of old-fashioned Utah English, like reading the "Buck 'a Marmon."

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SPOILER ALERT -

The correct answer is crick.

If you don’t want to live in a world where crick is a word, I don’t know what life means anymore.

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Full list of the original, UW-Milwaukee survey, which has since migrated to Harvard or Cambridge? Not sure:

http://dialect.redlog.net/maps.html

Dunno if this is a different version, looks like a different set of questions/data:

https://dialectsurvey.wordpress.com/survey-questions/


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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
SPOILER ALERT -

The correct answer is crick.

If you don’t want to live in a world where crick is a word, I don’t know what life means anymore.



I voted crick Doc in memory of my MIL who spent most of her life on a farm.

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I woke up with a crick in my neck.

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 Post subject: Re: Crick or a Creek
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It is called Salt Creek, not Salt Crick.

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For most of my life i had thought a crick was a mini-creek. Like something you could jump over.


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Crick people are suspect


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We had a crick down our back dirt road. If I were more Mark Twain-ish, I'd have spent Summer evenings there and wrote about my adventures.

I went back there maybe twice in my life. If I had a do-over, I'd have taken more advantage of it.

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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
We had a crick down our back dirt road. If I were more Mark Twain-ish, I'd have spent Summer evenings there and wrote about my adventures.

I went back there maybe twice in my life. If I had a do-over, I'd have taken more advantage of it.

Too busy whitewashing fences?


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Nardi wrote:
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
We had a crick down our back dirt road. If I were more Mark Twain-ish, I'd have spent Summer evenings there and wrote about my adventures.

I went back there maybe twice in my life. If I had a do-over, I'd have taken more advantage of it.

Too busy whitewashing fences?


Most of our fences were electrified.

You only take a wet brush to those once.

CFMB was one bad Dr. Ken decision away from never being here. Would you want to live in a world without Dr. Ken?

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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
Nardi wrote:
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
We had a crick down our back dirt road. If I were more Mark Twain-ish, I'd have spent Summer evenings there and wrote about my adventures.

I went back there maybe twice in my life. If I had a do-over, I'd have taken more advantage of it.

Too busy whitewashing fences?


Most of our fences were electrified.

You only take a wet brush to those once.

CFMB was one bad Dr. Ken decision away from never being here. Would you want to live in a world without Dr. Ken?

Can I mull it over down by the crick and get back to you?


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Nardi wrote:
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
Nardi wrote:
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
We had a crick down our back dirt road. If I were more Mark Twain-ish, I'd have spent Summer evenings there and wrote about my adventures.

I went back there maybe twice in my life. If I had a do-over, I'd have taken more advantage of it.

Too busy whitewashing fences?


Most of our fences were electrified.

You only take a wet brush to those once.

CFMB was one bad Dr. Ken decision away from never being here. Would you want to live in a world without Dr. Ken?

Can I mull it over down by the crick and get back to you?


Yes.

But you must be barefooted. Shoes are not allowed near a crick-type setting.

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I like some hillbilly things but I am not a hillbilly. It's a creek.

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Drunk Squirrel wrote:
Is that where you do the Warsh?

I got laughed at that when I mentioned Warshington. It seemed natural...then.

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I like some hillbilly things but I am not a hillbilly. It's a creek.


Hillbilly? I didn't think Illinois people were considered hillbillies.

I know Bernstein considers everyone outside his area code as the Hardcore American South.

I just thought everybody else considered non-Chicagoans "downstate" - even if they were from Rockford.

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I played Lick Crick golf course in Peoria a few times. We then had dinner for lunch, and later had supper for dinner.


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I played Lick Crick golf course in Peoria a few times. We then had dinner for lunch, and later had supper for dinner.

What was for breakfast?

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Drunk Squirrel wrote:
Is that where you do the Warsh?

I got laughed at that when I mentioned Warshington. It seemed natural...then.



My grandfather, being a rural boy at heart , was a crick and Warshington guy. My dad will occasionally say crick. I’m a creek person but will use crick when talking of named local creeks if I’m speaking with locals. So if doc and I were hanging out at the Captain Swift covered bridge sipping Sarsaparilla I’d refer to the body of water as Bureau Crick. Now you may think this sounds odd… it does sound odd.


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Drunk Squirrel wrote:
Is that where you do the Warsh?

I got laughed at that when I mentioned Warshington. It seemed natural...then.

250 N Warshington?


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I played Lick Crick golf course in Peoria a few times. We then had dinner for lunch, and later had supper for dinner.

Sounds like heaven.


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Nardi wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
Drunk Squirrel wrote:
Is that where you do the Warsh?

I got laughed at that when I mentioned Warshington. It seemed natural...then.

250 N Warshington?


:shock: :lol: Bingo!

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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
Drunk Squirrel wrote:
Is that where you do the Warsh?


At times. Also have ensurance for my canoe.



Isn't it properly pronounced IN-surance?

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Nas wrote:
Are you Southern folk still talking about ice boxes?


I sometimes call the refrigerator an "icebox", a habit I picked up from my grandmother. My wife finds it annoying for some reason.

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