Yuins what live next to cricks. Do y'all warsh your trousers in those cricks?
If you were to read "creek", would you still say crick? I would be cool with that, but I don't understand why you feel the need to spell it wrong though.

It's a Stream...

Or a gully

Grew up in western NY. A neighboring town had a road named "Creek road". In 20-some years never heard a single person pronounce it any way other than crick.

.... or a brook.

The difference between a stream and a creek is whether it has a name on a map, and the difference between a creek and a crick is whether it runs through a farm.

Pittsburgh Dad can tell younz all abaht cricks n’at

We have streams, creeks, and rivers, depends where they are , where they start, and where they end up...but our creeks are always pronounced cricks

Regional dialect. I have a great employee that works for me from San Angelo TX. I understand the Hispanics BETTER than I can understand his accent! Pittsburgh is different but east Texas is unintelligible.

I still live in WNY and this^^^^^^ is truth. They're all cricks and for some reason spelled wrong with Creek

Holler around here.

Yep here too.

Crick,

Yep, when I see creek I read it as crick but I also spell it crick.

I suppose you are always fixin to mash a button down south there too? Or you think getting an engine to crank means it is started? And you have the gall to ask what a crick is??? Hey, at least neither of us speaks ebonics.

Jefferson county PA it's YINZ

I grew up hearing crick for creek. The valley between two hills called a saddle. I always thought saddle and holler were the same thing if you were not talking about tack? A dry sandy, gravely, dry crick bed was an arroya but spelled arroyo. the word corral pronounce core el and around here its called a pen. Always heard ponds called dirt tanks.

Creeks and streams are for yuppie fly fishermen. Crick is where you go get your minners and crick chubs.

Crick is a stiffness in your neck or back.

Halla is common here.


A saddle is a slight depression between two high points.

A creek has a name.a branch does not and is smaller.all those other words mean nothing down here lol

Didn't realize it was time for the creek crick debate for the year yet. And yes I'd read that sentence as crick crick debate lol

(In reality Patrick F. McManus explains it best)

Correct

Might be a bayou....

Streams and Brooks are where us civilized folks with

Fly rods ..harvest trout with hand tied flies.

Cricks and creeks are where Goobers fish with spinning

Rods and Gaahden Hackle...

Or a big live yellow grasshopper on a flyrod. get breakfast pretty quick

Who ya hollerin' at down by the crick?

I have a capped spring right behind my house. It runs down a ditch, makes a sharp left turn, drops around 148 feet over the course of the ditch and then disappear into the ground. The capped Spring runs about 10 months out of the year. At least 4 other, unimproved springs also empty into that ditch. Another big spring runs towards it and disappears into the same spot. A more temporary spring comes in at a right angle to the other two and also disappears in the same spot.

After heavy rains, the bigger ditch can have over a 15' wide embanked flow that is over 3' deep, with some water escaping the banks. All that water still disappears into the ground. It's somewhat amazing. There has to be a cave or sinkhole, covered with gravel.

Keith

… what’s strange is around here the road signs will call the same size bodies of water creeks and bayous… wonder what the difference is lol

Same here. Maybe stain of the water. lol

…. Maybe it’s a bayou if a Frenchman washed butt in it at some point in history lol

Cricks out here are called rivers.

Perfect! I have successfully flushed out all of the crickbillies in here. A good many of them anyway.
Now if I can figure out how to stealthily draw out all the warshbillies. I have more respect for them. I come from a long line of them actually. At least they don't spell it wrong. lol

Crick crossing and youins. A brushy ditch is a draw. I once heard a guy call a pond a hole of water. Not yes but yep.

We got some swamp billies here, they live along a crick....

Spring branch, Crick, Creek, Stream, River, Ocean.
Fill in the blank.

Hey! I resemble that remark. LOL

A spring originates on my property and flows down through a neighboring farm.

The Pennsylvania Stream Map calls it an Unnamed Tributary to Pine Creek.

We call it “the spring crick.”

The spring crick does a great job of removing the odor from caught skunks that have sprayed. An overnight soak, a day to dry and they’re ready to skin.

It is also the site of our annual early spring Rubber Ducky Race as well as an endless source of entertainment for grandkids exploring for tadpoles, crayfish and all sorts of other aquatic critters.

I grew up, sort of, (still act 12) beside Charlie Creek.

I shall make a vibrant effort to enunciate properly in my quest for discussion on this venue However since our brooks and streams in the region of my domicile are thoroughly ensconced by a myriad of cedars tag alders and multiple willow species a properly heeled gentleman with rod and fly would experience extreme difficulty in his quest for trout Perhaps such a harrowing experience would result in said sportsman's seeking medical attention for several cricks in his skeletonal structure

Best rod and bait for those type of "cricks" is a shotgun with #7 1/2 target loads....

If you live near Pittsburgh, it’s Turtle Crick, not Turtle Creek.

Agreed

I've been in places that call anything wet cricks,creeks, streams, branches,springs and here anything running in August a river!

In Pittsburgh it is Pine Crick. We also call people from Virginia Jagoff$

Haha!

Better than being one of those old fogies with plaid shorts pulled up over their belly button, riding around in a canoe trolling for a trout or two, and then saying they caught them when in fact the trout caught themselves, lol.

Love ya Nessy!

And corn out fishes worms!

Bout time youns high falutin snobs unthawed.
Spell check has left the building lol.

Bingo!

That's exactly what I said.

I don't believe that we are allowed to call each other that in here. That's mean. Besides that, everybody who is intact surely does it, thus I am not offended, if that was your intention kind sir.

Brook is definitely a Yankee term. Same with pop.

But not light bread.

I'm surprised somebody hasn't mentioned runs.

Around my camp in north central PA every crick is called a run. Elk Lick Run, Indian Shanty Run, Beech Flats Run, Gravel Lick Run, Ole Bull Run, Wild Boy Run, Ayers Shanty Run, there's dozens of them.