Creek vs crick

Have at it kids, I'm going to bed.

Crick.

I’ve never known someone who said they had a creek in their neck. Known a few that said they had a crick in their neck. That said I’m going with creek.

depends on where I am at or who I am talking to. If down in Tn. it is crick, here at home it is normally creek, but it can be crick.

There's a conundrum over the crick/creek colloquialisms that
cohese our cosmic, capricious, cacaphony...and therefore
capitulates our callous, cacophonous, circumlocution of
charlatanism.
It's rough.

A creek is started by a spring and runs clean and clear.
A crick is started by a cow and is usually dry unless there's a downpour.

creek

Depends on which stream I am talking about. Some are creek and some are crick. Crazy.

We cal it a brook.

Creek.

Crick. Creek is what rusty door hinges do.

Crick.

That is crazy, lol.

Probably as crazy as spelling it creek and pronouncing it crick which is what folks did where I was raised.

Creeky door, good one.
Water course can be a pain in the neck.

Jargon changes from county to county over here,
we try and have fun with it.

Crick and I grew up in Silver Creek, but we call it Silver Crick

Here, the cricks or creeks wander through the salt marshes. About half say crick, about half say creek. I think I switch back and forth.

Tributary.

Creek

Cricks, I've heard creek a couple times in my life but not many.

A crick is the red-headed cousin of a creek.

If its less than100 cubits its a spring, if it runs down the middle of a haller its a crick, but if it doesn't end up over there yonder its got to be a branch creek unless its over 16 furlongs, then its a creek. It caint be no other ways ain't y'all read the good book any ways.

thank you lord Wilson for correcting us properly sir.

Crick

Depends on the name. Whatever rolls off the tongue better. Salt crick, Stevens Creek, indian crick, bear Creek.

Brooks run clean and clear, we don't have those around here

8117 Steve R is absolutely correct, depends on who we are talking to crick or creek can be used. In my class room students can be equally divided.

Tomaaato.

Ovah yonda is the crick under the aken tree.

I agree with this young fella.

I'm with loosey. Whatever rolls off the tongue better.

There were 2 that were about 20 miles apart. One was Indian crick. The other was Jacobs creek.

If I'm just talking in generalities it's crick. "I'm going down to the crick."

My wife everything is creek.

But she also pronounces the hard "G" on the end of words. You going huntinG? You going fishinG? You going trappinG?

I live on Town Creek road but I trap in the crick. Fall Creek is a small town near by and the school sports teams are the crickets, not the creekets!

Crick ,Creek , if its running slow its a trickle, but mostly Brook here in CT. We use all four. Brook must be a northeast thing.

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This !!!

But, hereabouts............they're ALL started by a cow and therefore............... crick.

Think about this, too.............. When a situation is hopeless and there's just NO WAY you're gonna have a good outcome.......... are you up - Creek without a paddle ???? Are you up - Brook without a paddle ???

I rest my case.

That would be Creak

A small stream in these parts is a Creek. And I agree with the above. Never heard of someone up a brook without a paddle.

Thats cause a Brook aint deep enough to put a canoe in , Thought Everyone new that!!!

Depends on what grade you made it past in elementary school

This thread is funny.
I use both. I'm almost certain there's no formal definition between crick and creek as far as running water goes.
The correct answer is, Yes.

Funny stuff...!!!

But it's just A Geographical Thing

I believe if I asked a farmer here if I could trap his crick he would slap me backwards.

What ya'll call a crick or a brook we call a ditch. Only has water in it when it rains

Something that actually flows is a creek!!

Never seen a creek spelled 'crick' on a map, but lots of people say both. Either way is good around here

So she calls creek -crick,
Who cares she's still got all her tith.

Or a stream. Either is acceptable.

So is that a freek or a Frick?

Nevah heard of “ Field & Crick “ …Field & Creek ……the proper name is Stream..as in Field & Stream !! The magazine didn’t want to sound like a bunch of Goobers !

If she didn't have her teeth it would be a cwick

Its a Crick.Only Fancy Ladds call It Creek. My wifes cousins from Maryland say we all talk funny up here.I tell them they are a bunch of Fancy Ladds.

Some places southeast of me they call them "kills"

Lol, this!

Out west they call creeks "Rivers" Lol.

call it what ever you like so long as you give me permission to fish it , hunt it and trap it.

what's next soda , pop , or coke ?

they all work it just tells you some of them ain't from round here and some is or what side of the river is it the Best side or the Helman's side

how about is it?

breakfast , lunch , dinner

breakfast , dinner , supper

or some other combination

doesn't matter what you want to call it , don't call me late for any of them

Supper!!

I call it soda-pop

Around here, the smaller streams are called a run. The larger stream is a crick. If creek is used, it is usually someone not from the area.

also acceptable

there is a map some that tried to show it all it even varied by county as it does here in WI if you get a guy from one side and his wife from the other side of the county he might call it soda-pop to not make it a item of contention in the household or at family gatherings

I found the map I grew up in soda territory and married a girl from a pop county who spent time in a coke area and I can call it either or any just a matter of where my feet are at the time.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/soda-vs-pop_n_2103764

ADC

The people who pronounce it KREEK fish for trout in it with a flyrod. And people who pronounce it correctly, crick, fish for catfish in it with a cane pole.

Sorry ADC, in Louisiana we fish for catfish with cane poles in CREEKS (unless we called that small waterway a bayou). In Wyoming we fish for trout with a flyrod in CRICKS (unless we call that small waterway a river).

We call soda ...Tonic

A sub is a grinder

And it's Dinnah

but is Dinnah served at noon or 6?

South of the mason dixon line......NOON!

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

6 PM

This thread is a rerun

A freaking Frick maybe that way from drinking from a crick

And this is a Streamah……used in a Stream

Or a creek

Nice lure

Quick water around here

Riffle

Patrick McManus had a discussion about this, I'm in agreement with him.

Ok FL cracker, what did He say ?

Not sure if any yoopers already chimed in, but around my parts it depends if there is trout in it. If there is it’s a creek. If not, or it is to small, probably a crick. If it’s smaller than that, but still big enough for a 110, it’s a trickle!!

Lol

Scroll up.

I posted it................in bold.

THIS THREAD IS CLOSED

The city manager in the small Sandhills town I own a house in refers to a "spring" when I asked about cutting wood in an area that the "creek" runs through. "Spring" he corrected me. The Minnechaduza Creek runs through our town. I take my Grandkids fishing there and they can catch trout along with bass, sunfish, catfish, rock bass, chubs etc. I simply call it the "Minnechaduza" as I'm out of breath by the time I get that out.

Creek

And riffle......or rapids in a big stream or small river.

Creek unless I'm making fun of the KY guys at work. Then is something like .... when I get home I'm a gonna send maw down to the crick to fech me sum water to draw me a bath

Grew up saying crick (of course it’s wrong!).

I'm not taking advice on how to pronounce stuff from the likes of "yous", "nevah".

Creek.

Unless you're Huck Finn- it's a Creek!

Creek is the standard spelling for professional writing.
Crick is a regional variant that better reflects the pronunciation of some speakers.

That can't be used in a Lake? Or is that a Pond??

Ok then...

Winner winner- chicken dinner.

Lake and pond is a crap shoot…lol…some ponds have a name change to a lake…so go figure

Then there's a Pot hole. Good fishing in some potholes

Lake Superior or Superior Lake...who decides that stuff?

Some Supperior

To me, I find it tolerable to spell it "Creek", but pronounce it "Crick." Just barely though.