xscumfucx t1_j9v9s6g wrote on February 24, 2023 at 8:27 PM

Reply to comment by akennelley in Survey on Pennsylvania Dialect (“cot” and “caught”) by pretty_hooligan

I just realized I do say “creek” when referring to one by its full name like “Swamp Creek”. It’s very rare that I need to use the full name though (+ calling it that just sounds weird to me) since anyone that knows me irl knows what I’m referring to when I say “the crick” because they all know where I grew up, aka next to “the crick”.

DelcoInDaHouse t1_j9vk2hb wrote on February 24, 2023 at 9:33 PM

I think it is relative to the crick you grew up near. If you would go down the street to the crick you would never call it a creek. You drive across the state and you pull up to a creek, well then it’s a creek.