PEAS: "crick" in North, N Midland; "creek" in South, S Midland

[Bob Fitzke]

Beverly Flanigan wrote:

> "Proper"?  "as spelled"?  Spelling doesn't dictate pronunciation, and there
> ain't no "proper" way of pronouncing anything!

That may well be true. But it's a hard sell in specific locales, e.g., Charlotte,
MI and Charlotte, NC(?)
The natives get irked when the outlanders confuse the two pronunciations.

Bob