I try to avoid the runs.

Around here its a crick,,,unless your one of them "Fancy Lads"

I catch a lot of creek chubs in the cricks around here.

We consider both the same, but I believe what people call them is territorial and the region they live in. Stream, creek or crick all are moving water in some small fraction other than a river.

It is pretty simple. If you call a creek a crick what do you call the cloth material that you put on your bed? Sheets or Shiits??????

Is a bayou a large crick?

A Stream must be for affluent people......

A bayou is a big bogue.

The difference between a violin and a fiddle.
A violin has strings.

A fiddle has strangs.

Rickey

Creek is the highfalutin folks fly fish for trout. A crick is where real people go noodle flatheads.

Yup

Dago Creek.

The fiddle is ok to get some beer poured on it the violin not so much but not a dime difference between them. Lol

Good post And itis well explained that every one can understand I no longer recall the author but one of the outdoor humor writers did a article on compasses And one line went something along the lines concerning a brand name of a compass company named Tate's Some how the company went wrong and had a curse put on it .So any compass that was sold was defective And there fore the owner of the Tate company compas would be infested with lice .And that is how the phrase He who has a Tates (hesitates) is loused .Of more urgent concern for me is the nut use to make the great southern dessert Pecan pie pronounced PEE CAN pie or is the proper pronunciation PA Kann

We have a lot of "drains" here too. Usually big ditches made by the county or landowner at some point.

So is it- Good Lord willing and the crick don't rise?

Arnold Slick is from Turtle Crick.

Spell check here says crick is ok.
Next County over? Probably not lol.

Here they’re called a dredge ditch.

According to McMannus men don't squat, they hunker, and wrote a good piece describing the art of hunkering down in detail.