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