Date:    Thu, 5 Mar 1998 18:43:52 -0500
<br>From:    Ron Butters  RonButters[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM 
<br>Subject: Distnc. btw. "crick"&"creek", GREASY/GREAZY
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<br>Jesse writes:
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<br>   This writer, who is from an unspecified
<br>but "rural" part of the country, claims that he uses both pronunciations,
<br>but that a "crick" was smaller than a "creek."   
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<br>I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THIS--NOT IN IOWA (where we all said CRICK) nor here in
<br>North Carolina.
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<br>One thing that surprises me here is that folks say that GREASY and GREAZY are
<br>semantically distinct to the extent that GREAZY things are GREASY, but
<br>intensely so, Is this true elsewhere in the South?
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