Heard on local NE PA news

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:41 PM -0800 1/25/10, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>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
>
So the full line is probably "Good Lord willin' and the crick don't
rise lest it turns to a creek" (given the vowel triangle and all)

LH

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