How do you pronounce the word "creek"?

Kr eek here.

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Kr eek here too.

kreek here in Oregon. And the farm I grew up on had two of them that me and my sister would fish in while waiting for our parents to get home from work.

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S’okay though. North of me, in New Hampshire and Maine, I’ve heard people refer to a “roof” as a ruff.

‘Course, your friends might call it a krikky ruff were it old enough.

Where the hell do you live? Sounds like West Virginia to me.

kreek in England.

Now I know of people saying ‘feesh’, but these would always live in a ‘kreek’ and never in a ‘krik’.

I’m in Maine, and it’s ‘kreek’ for me. Here’s the pronunciation from dictionary.com -

creek[kreek, krik] noun

So they accept ‘krik’...

@cookieman I don’t hear people say ‘roof’ rhyming with ‘tough’; the vowel sound in ‘roof’ is like in ‘cook’, ‘look’, etc. I say roof with the vowel sound of ‘too’.

G-d willing and the creeek don’t rise! (We only say crik when we are making fun.)

@amujinx First time I ever heard krik was when I moved to Michigan. They also say ruff for roof, and eye-talian for Italian. I don’t know where they get all that from? Not all Michiganders, the ones in the Detroit suburbs don’t seem to do it.

With a long “E”. Not the way Jimmy Stewart pronounces “Willet Creek” in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (which is how I learned that some people pronounce it “crick”).

I say it with the long “e” sound, but have heard it said as “crick” when I was growing up. Grew up in Western NY and now live in NE Ohio.

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(Massachusetts)

In Virginia and Maryland, creek is pronounced “branch”..

I grew up with crick. And yes high school diplomas were rare in my family and I could water witch as a kid. I now use creek and I can’t water witch any more.:)

I heard krik a lot growing up. Ugh!

With a long e sound, but I’ve definitely heard “crick”. I always thought it was a rural thing.

A crick in your neck and, Lord willing, a crick not rising, are okay. But if it’s wet, it’s a creeeeek.

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I think those people that call a creek a “crick” are the same as those that pronounce wash “worsh.”

I pronounce it “creak”.

Creek, unless I’m making a hick joke, then I say crick.

The “crick” spelling has been around since 1608. The OED lists it as a North American variant. Offhand I can’t think of any other English words with this variation, but it’s not a surprising change. It happens in some dialects of French.

I live in a caybin by the crick. (My mom knew someone who spoke like that).

@livelaughlove21 I live in Buffalo. It does sound like something you would expect from one of the locals in Deliverance. The only person I know who says “worsh” is my father, and I’ve been yelling at him about that since I was a kid, so he rarely lets that slip anymore. I think he picked that pronunciation up from his dad, who was from central Pennsylvania.

@JLeslie I’ve never heard roof as “ruff” around here. I’ve heard “eye-talian”, but when that’s used around here, it always means it’ll be followed by an Italian stereotype joke.

Thank you everyone for your answers.

Buffalo is close enough to the midwest to have some of the same stuff. They play Euchre there, so it has to be some of the same people. LOL.

@livelaughlove21 My grandmother says ‘warsh’ but not ‘crick.’ She is from southern Indiana. I hear ‘crick’ fairly often in southwestern Virginia but never ‘warsh.’ I looked it up once out of curiosity and ‘warsh’ was said to be related to the Ohio river area.

@Supacase Some of my friends from Ohio say warsh.

I always thought warsh is an Okie (Oklahoma) word. I say it, and so does my family.

My grandma says warsh and she’s from West Virginia.

Based on Merriam Webster, Creek is pronounced as \ˈkrēk or ˈkrik\