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

[D. Ezra Johnson]

>From: Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU>
>
>PEAS has a few informants on the Ohio side of the Ohio River (just west of
>the Kanawha River in WVa but running northeastward as far as >Wheeling
>parallel), and they too are recorded as using [krik].
>However, [krIk] is often heard in this South Midland area now...

Actually, the PEAS map is trying to show that [krIk] was predominant in this
part of Ohio. It is the large black circles nearby that indicate this (also
note the location of the line labeled "southern boundary of the area in
which /I/ predominates"). The small white circles are the _exceptions_ to
the general trend.

For example, there is one small white circle at Marietta. That signifies one
[krik] response. Comparing other maps, you can deduce that there were three
informants from Marietta. The other two said [krIk].

Really, the maps are difficult to interpret and verge on being useless. We
can't tell which speaker from Marietta said [krik] -- was it the cultured
speaker (the 70-year-old female Episcopalian college graduate with 'very
precise articulation') or one of the other two (not described)?

However, on some of the other maps you _can_ tell which speakers gave which
responses... For example, the notation [small white circle, small white
circle, dash] for Marietta on Map 62 means that speakers 1 and 2 from
Marietta had /i/ in "deaf" and speaker 3 had /E/. If you're familiar with
the materials you know that speaker 3 would be the cultured speaker, based
on the Atlas numbering schemes, but none of this is explained properly in
PEAS...

DEj

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