Up here the lunch menu is set out from 11AM to to 2PM, not dinner, dinnah or supper. Used to go to the linestock auction in Johnsons Crick near here, when they built an outlet mall at the intersection it was named Johnson Creek, may have to do more with your upbringing than location.

also noon in rural Green county breakfast , dinner , supper

where I grew up breakfast lunch and supper you didn't get a dinner break at school or work you goth a lunch break

i found this as a word origin explanation

but it seems to also be when was the largest meal of the day served on many of the farms is was the mid day meal , milking was done there was the most time to cook and clean up after the mid day meal and milking would have to be done again in the evening


https://www.portablepress.com/blog/2017/09/origins-breakfast-lunch-dinner/
BREAKFAST

That’s easy—it’s an English word that developed to connote the first bit of food taken after a person wakes up. They’ve been sleeping, and so not eating, which means any food is “breaking the fast” they’ve been engaged in.

DINNER

As late as the mid-20th century, dinner referred to the meal eaten in the middle of the day, not the one eaten at the end. Oddly enough, the word dinner comes from the 11th century Old French word disner, which meant “to eat breakfast.” As the word was absorbed into English as dinner, it came to refer to the “main” meal of the day, the timing of which changed over the centuries. Over time, the largest meal of the day moved later and later in the day, until it was the evening meal.

LUNCH

As dinner became established as a meal eaten in the evening or at night, there came a need for a meal in the middle of the day…or for some kind of sustenance. Lunch is short for luncheon, a word dating to the 1650s that once meant “thick hunk,” as in a thick hunk of meat. At the same time, there was an English word nuncheon, which meant a midday meal. That word is a combination of “noon” and an obsolete word schench, which meant “to have a drink.”

SNACK

While it might seem like the notion of having a small meal in between the other, bigger meals seems like a modern invention or the result of advances in marketing and food storage technology, the word “snack” dates all the way back to the 1300s. It’s from a Middle Dutch word, snacken, which means to snatch or to snap—like a jaw quickly scaring down some food. The first written use of snack as a noun dates to the late 18th century. A few decades later, and people in Europe and the Americas were using “snack” as a verb to refer to eating a little bit of something to get them through a few hours.

Alas... a new thread might be needed

Creek crick teeth/took

Creeks here in MO.

Crick, for me, if it only holds minnows - Creek, if it have Chubs(ours can get 12-15") and stream if I can paddle it. Fine line between stream and river as we have no major ones. Brook make us feel too sophisticated. Even though we have Brook trout, lol. We might say spring creek if we are waxing poetic.

South of the mason dixon line......NOON![/quote]
Well said.

So a "brook trout" is now a "crick trout"? And Brunch is now brupper? I'm confused..............

Creek southeast kansas.

Dinner was always at noon at our central KS farm right after we washed at the spring that ran into the branch crick that ran into the crick that ran in to Pipe Creek.

How long did it take you to come up with that!!?? Had to get a dictionary for a few of those. Geez!

Its crick you yankees.

I was born and raised in TN,we never called them a crick, crick is what you get in your neck when you sleep wrong. A creek is what you trap or fish in. Out here in Idaho it's a crick, bugs me to no end.

On the contrary......................

The late, great Patrick F. McManus laid it out better than Merriam Webster could have dreamed of...............




Maybe I can, once and for all, clear up this confusion over cricks and creeks.

First of all a creek has none of the raucous, vulgar, freewheeling character of a crick. If they were people, creeks would wear tuxedos and amuse themselves with the ballet, opera, and witty conversation; cricks would go around in their undershirts and amuse themselves with the Saturday night fights, taverns, and humorous belching. Creeks would perspire and cricks, sweat. Creeks would smoke pipes; cricks, chew and spit.

Creeks tend to be pristine. They meander regally through high mountain meadows, cascade down dainty waterfalls, pause in placid pools, ripple over beds of gleaming gravel and polished rock. They sparkle in the sunlight. Deer and poets sip from creeks, and images of eagles wheel upon the surface of their mirrored depths.

Cricks, on the other hand, shuffle through cow pastures, slog through beaver dams, gurgle through culverts, ooze through barnyards, sprawl under sagging bridges, and when not otherwise occupied, thrash fitfully on their beds of quicksand and clay. Cows should perhaps be credited with giving cricks their most pronounced characteristic. In deference to the young and the few ladies left in the world whose sensitivities might be offended, I forgo a detailed description of this characteristic. Let me say only that to a cow the whole universe is a bathroom, and it makes no exception for cricks. A single cow equipped only with determination and fairly good aim can in a matter of hours transform a perfectly good creek into a crick.



Excerpted from "How to Fish a Crick"
http://www.finefishing.com/1flyfish/humor/howtofishcrick.htm

Yup my uncle lives in Fall Creek (pronounced Crick) another small town near here, sign says Sand Creek but the town is Sand Crick.

Crick in yinzer land, western Pa.

BTW........the squeaky door hinge is a creak.......just saying......

It’s a creek here until you get high enough in East Tennessee, then it’s a crick. Also safe to go with crick in any other area where banjo music may break out without notice.

No, no.... any flowing stream of water smaller than a river is a crick. No matter if it's spelled crick or creek, it's STILL crick.

Ok, so in the crick, that spot where the water is shallow and fast and rocks are sticking out and sometimes trout's backs are seen above the water... what is that spot of the crick called?

Well, it ain't the swimmin' hole