Heard on local NE PA news

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Jan 25, 2010, at 5:32 PM, i wrote:

> On Jan 25, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
>> Reporter covering flooding of Toby(sp?) Creek, caused by day-long,
>> heavy rains in Wyoming County:

Toby Creek in N.E. Pa.

>> "It's just been awful. I've never seen the creek _[krIk]_ like this
>> before!"
>>
>> The first time that I've ever that pronunciation in the wild.

footnote: a fair number of speakers say that a /krik/ is bigger than
a /krIk/.  nice sound symbolism.

arnold

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