How do you pronounce this word? "Creek" (1 Viewer)

[Zegras11]

Crick or Creak?

 

[Evilgrin 72]

ee= long e sound. There can be no arguing this.

 

[Zegras11]

ee= long e sound. There can be no arguing this.

That's what I thought.... until today when someone swore it was the "hick" version.

 

[McGarnicle]

Crack

 

[Das Boot]

I say it like this: "creek"

 

[Insein]

Ive heard both in my neck of the woods. I prefer creek.

 

[Fariq]

ee= long e sound. There can be no arguing this.

That's what I thought.... until today when someone swore it was the "hick" version.

My friend was born and raised and still lives in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area and he rhymes it with hick.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

We really need a new pronunciation poll forum, don't we?

 

[Snoopy]

We really need a new pronunciation poll forum, don't we?

Did he get a coupon to Coldwater Creek?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Rhymes with "seek". I ain't no hillbilly.

 

[Raider Nation]

We really need a new pronunciation poll forum, don't we?

Did he get a coupon to Coldwater Creek?

Dawn gave it to him.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

other: stream

 

[xulf]

EE for sure.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Northern Exposure says "crick?" No way. Does the name "Northern" not mean anything???

 

[MC Gas Money]

Its apparent that these mispronounciations are coming out of the south. Holdovers from a time when they had low literacy rates.

 

[Zegras11]

Its apparent that these mispronounciations are coming out of the south. Holdovers from a time when they had low literacy rates.

How is it apparent?

Native Idahoans call it crick.

 

[MC Gas Money]

Its apparent that these mispronounciations are coming out of the south. Holdovers from a time when they had low literacy rates.

How is it apparent?

Native Idahoans call it crick.

Very similiar dynamics in the plains too

 

[Rove!]

Webster says both are correct

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/creek

 

[Wingnut]

Its apparent that these mispronounciations are coming out of the south.

Nope. My neighbor/landlord is from Battle Creek, MI, and she pronounces it Battle Crick and says she always has.On a side note, I heard a lawyer commercial in the radio, and he pronounced Missouri "Mizur-uh". I had never heard it pronounced that way before.

 

[skol asylum]

Ive heard both in my neck of the woods. I prefer creek.

Neck = nick or neek?

 

[FreeBaGeL]

Kind of a skewed poll since most people that say "crick" don't know how to use a computer.

 

[moleculo]

I say crick, but I'm aware that it's wrong, and I can hear a difference (as opposed to Don/Dawn).

Crick is the proper and correct pronunciation in Wyoming, for those trying to spot geographic tendencies.

 

[Zegras11]

I say crick, but I'm aware that it's wrong, and I can hear a difference (as opposed to Don/Dawn).

Crick is the proper and correct pronunciation in Wyoming, for those trying to spot geographic tendencies.

Michigan, Idaho and Wyoming have reported in. A Northern thing?

 

[Binky The Doormat]

I say crick, but I'm aware that it's wrong, and I can hear a difference (as opposed to Don/Dawn).

Crick is the proper and correct pronunciation in Wyoming, for those trying to spot geographic tendencies.

Michigan, Idaho and Wyoming have reported in. A Northern thing?

Meh, I think its more of a "country" thing. And them country folks is everwheres.

 

[moleculo]

I was shocked when I learned that the word crick has two e's and no i's.

 

[mr roboto]

In Chicago they pronounce Des Plaines not like Des Moines, but phonetically. Buncha Polacks can't pronounce French.

 

[MC Gas Money]

Its apparent that these mispronounciations are coming out of the south.

Nope. My neighbor/landlord is from Battle Creek, MI, and she pronounces it Battle Crick and says she always has.On a side note, I heard a lawyer commercial in the radio, and he pronounced Missouri "Mizur-uh". I had never heard it pronounced that way before.

These are all off shoots of southern vernacular.

Not to say us yankees never pronounce things strangely but we usually either dropbthe letter at the end of a word or usevthe wrong form of a single vowel.

Country folk like to mispronounce two vowels together which makes the entire word sound way off

 

[northern exposure]

Northern Exposure says "crick?" No way. Does the name "Northern" not mean anything???

I was just screwing around and voted for Crick because I thought I'd be the only one. I pronounce it like seek and I'm shocked 5 other votes came in for Crick.

 

[roadkill1292]

It depends on where I'm at and with whom I'm speaking. Guile and insincerity are underrated assets.

 

[SWC]

i say crick but i know it is not right i also say missurah and i know that is wrong to but hey it is fun to say them that way so i do it and it makes me feel like there is a little ray of sunlight on that part of my day take that to the bank brochachos

 

[pollardsvision]

Grew up saying "creak", but I've come to prefer "crick". Not sure if it's from spending some time in the Midwest or what, but I find it just rolls off the tongue more smoothly.

I go both ways for both creek and pecan.

 

[Ned]

I say crick, but I'm aware that it's wrong, and I can hear a difference (as opposed to Don/Dawn).

Crick is the proper and correct pronunciation in Wyoming, for those trying to spot geographic tendencies.

Michigan, Idaho and Wyoming have reported in. A Northern thing?

Meh, I think its more of a "country" thing. And them country folks is everwheres.

It's about a 50/50 mix here in DE. I say creek.

Maybe this is restricted to DE, but I hear a lot of 'wooder' for water. This one drives me nuts.

 

[SWC]

maybe everyone should just let people say it however they want you say brotado i say brotado is what i am getting at take that to the bank

 

[Village Idiot]

In Chicago they pronounce Des Plaines not like Des Moines, but phonetically. Buncha Polacks can't pronounce French.

That's because when they try to use the French pronunciation for Des Plaines they end up sounding like Tattoo at the begining of Fantasy Island.

 

[Guest]

Almost always say crEEk. Unless I'm taking Darla down to the crick to do a little skinny dipping.

 

[Mr. Ected]

We really need a new pronunciation poll forum, don't we?

Did he get a coupon to Coldwater Creek?

Better use it quick, just saw a guy this weekend with a sign near a plaza with one of those stores saying the company was going out of business, and they were selling the fixtures.

 

[Super King]

I use both. A crick is smaller than a creek.

 

[rikishiboy]

I have used both as well.

 

[Guest]

I use both. A crick is smaller than a creek.

This is very reasonable.

 

[johnnycakes]

As in pencil neck geek

 

[Tom Servo]

ee= long e sound. There can be no arguing this.

Unless you're from western PA.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I got a crick in my back...

...yard

 

[spOOfy]

i use both.

there was a CRICK near my house growing up, which was in philly and basically amounted to sewer runoff. CRICK sounds dirty, so i guess i use it for a dirty waterway.

clean/country waterway gets CREAK.

i'm a complex individual.

i voted CRICK though since i used that most of my life.

 

[randall146]

Kirk