Heard on local NE PA news

[Herb Stahlke]

When I was growing up in Waltz, MI, we had both /krik/ and /krIk/, but
the name of the one just outside of town was always Swan /krIk/.

Herb

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Reporter covering flooding of Toby(sp?) Creek, caused by day-long,
> heavy rains in Wyoming County:
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> "What's it been like, today?"
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> Forty-ish local:
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> "It's just been awful. I've never seen the creek _[krIk]_ like this before!"
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> The first time that I've ever that pronunciation in the wild.
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