Posted by Kath on October 12, 2009, at 20:45:46
In reply to Re: Anyone pronounce creek as 'crick' ? » Phillipa, posted by 10derHeart on October 12, 2009, at 2:20:58
> It was always a brook to me, never a creek. A crick, I often get in my neck....
Yes - I get a crick in my neck too!
> Reading books and stuff, I grew up deciding creeks were only something "in the South" wherever *that* was....
Well I'm up north from you - north of Toronto, Ontario. I think creeks or "crick" as my husband & I grew up calling them, are quite narrow. Smaller than a stream - but to me a brook is narrow also! ??
Kath
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