Date:    Mon, 2 Mar 1998 15:14:16 -0500
<br>From:    "Patrick L. Courts"  courts[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AIT.FREDONIA.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: Semantic distinc. betw. "crick" and "creek"?
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<br>Most of the student I teach from rural areas (Western NY and Central NY)
<br>distinguish the difference in size between the smaller "crick" and larger
<br>"creek"; many also use different pronunciations for each.  Some of folks I
<br>knew from Southeastern Ohio also distinguished both semantically and
<br>phonetically.  dInIs does, don't you dInIs?
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<br>At 11:32 AM 3/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
<br> A correspondent wrote in about an alleged semantic distinction
<br> between "crick" and "creek." This writer, who is from an unspecified
<br> but "rural" part of the country, claims that he uses both pronunciations,
<br> but that a "crick" was smaller than a "creek." He states that he has
<br> had a long-running disagreement with his wife about this, and he recently
<br> found someone else who makes this distinction. DARE doesn't show any
<br> semantic distinction, and Joan Hall isn't otherwise aware of any.
<br> 
<br> Is this distinction familiar to anyone on the list?
<br> 
<br> Jesse Sheidlower
<br> Random House Reference
<br>  jester[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]panix.com 
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