Heard on local NE PA news

[Dan Goodman]

On 1/25/2010 5:20 PM, Wilson Gray 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.

Commonly heard in the 1950s among lower-class natives of Ulster County
NY (more specifically, the area around Accord and Kerhonkson.)  Heard
more recently from middle-class natives of the Twin Cities.



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