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Don't know that I have ever heard anyone in the Southern Appalachians pronounce it "crick" .

There's some truth in that. That, and NY with palm trees.

websterparish47,

YEP. I finished my BA & my Master's degree but NOT the PhD that I worked on for several years. - I finally "gave up" on finishing the doctorate because I kept being sent on long TDY assignments all over the Globe.
(Believe it or not, FIVE semesters in a row I paid tuition & attended classes but was unable to complete the course work due to being ordered out of State on a 90+ day period of TDY. = Civilian schools do NOT either understand nor care that your military requirements take FIRST priority over their academic requirements.)

Because of being on AD with the Army & being moved around on numerous PCS, I took courses at (some ON & some OFF campus):
1. Oklahoma University
2. University of Arkansas
3. North TX State (Now: The University of North Texas)
4. Oklahoma Baptist University
5. LSU
6. Tulane
7. Auburn
8. Texas A&M
9. Michigan State
10. University of South Carolina
(and likely some other colleges that I cannot remember off-hand, without getting out my transcript & reading it carefully.)

When I had my undergraduate & graduate transcript "audited" for "degree completion" by one grad school advisor, the prof said, "It looks like you can't decide where you want to attend college."
(I suspect that to any civilian that my transcripts look like a "500-piece puzzle". = That's WHY I favor the Armed Forces establishing an accredited GRAD SCHOOL that grants masters degrees & earned doctorates.)

As the military mission comes FIRST before any military member finishing a graduate course of study, the military services either need to STOP telling college graduates to go get a graduate degree OR "stabilize" the member until they can complete their course of study.

Note: Generally, barring a MAJOR war, all of the military services will "stabilize" undergraduate students until they can complete their AS, AA, BA or BS but none of the armed services will "stabilize" graduate students until they can complete their graduate degree course-work.

just my OPINIONS, tex

You better hurry, Dolly is bulldozing all the trailer parks.

you are ok , as long as you are not a civil engineer.

We say crick here in PNW, too. Has a colleague from Cambridge Ma. and he'd get all pinchy faced when I used the vernacular.

Some people like to be surrounded by people that talk and look just like them is all some even feel superior in their little enclaves. That's a lot of mashed potatoes without the gravy for most of us but whatever floats your boat.

You hear when you're old. Who cares what they sound like?

The old school Appalachian dialect is still around. But in most places it's been softened to a great extent.

My late child and teen years were in Virginia (Culpeper). One could easily ID anyone from the surrounding communities within seconds or their first words with separations only on the order of 20 to 30 miles.

Can't do that here in S.E. Oregon.

DarlaG: I would hate to pay for your official transcripts for a job application.

Nope, I call a creek a creek, never called it a crick. I call a hollow a holler. I even heard people say I am going to hope those people, instead of saying help those people.

How bout a crick in your back? That's a back woods saying for a sore back I've heard many places.

Creeks are for snooty folk.
Say th at around here, and we know you ain't from around here.

As for a screwed up neck, if I can't say "I have a crick in my neck",
I honestly don't know how to express it.

persiandog,

NOPE. - I'm just a retired soldier & peace officer.

yours, tex

Have a couple friends from WV and sc PA. When they speak they speak with what sounds like an English accent. ou ends up sounding more like a long o sound. The cadence of their speech is distinctive too. Seems like maybe the way they end their sentences is distinctive also.

What you saw in that video is still very prevalent in western N.C. The transients haven’t yet taken over completely.