(erielack) Re: Word pronunciation.

["Tom Beckett" <tabeckett_@_stny.rr.com>]

It may be pronounced "crick", but it is spelled "creek." As in Pierce Creek 
Rd, Nanticoke Creek, Castle Creek, etc. Just another case of the 
pronunciation not following the spelling.

Tom B
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>
To: "'Walter Smith'" <wsmith5957_@_hotmail.com>; <tabeckett@stny.rr.com>; 
<erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 8:51 PM
Subject: Word pronunciation.


> Walt Smith wrote:
>
>> finally from Montrose I'd take Snake Creek
>> road
>
> As a local Binghamtonian, I NEVER heard any body call that road Snake 
> CREEK Road.  It was Snake
> Crick.  "Crick" was pretty much the common pronunciation for that word 
> around there.
>
> I believe also that the Snake Crick valley was the projected route of the 
> never-built interurban
> from Montrose to Binghamton.
>
> SGL 



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