> > There are also other local pronunciations, which I mock at every opportunity. "Creek" is "crick" here, "wolf" is "woof," "wash" is "warsh," and many similar words. I also notice that almost no one here uses adverbs. A lot of people switch the uses of "seen" and "saw."
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> Yeah, Mom's plagued me with "warsh" syndrome, too. She lived in Oregon for awhile, but I suspect it's from Texas (which is where she was really born).
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> ri " 'Mom, say "Wash."' 'Warsh.' 'Argh!' " a

My grandma says 'warsh' and 'crick', and probably 'woof'. I'd never really thought about where she picked it up from, but she did live in Oregon for a while. Never in Texas, though. : ) By now I know what she means, of course, but when I was younger it would confuse me. It was always:

Gma: Let's go to the crick!
Me: The what?
Gma: The crick!
Me: Huh?
Gma: You know! The water thing that's down the road that gets muddy and where there's reeds and grass!
Me: Ohhh! The *creek*!
Gma: Yeah! That's what I said! The crick!

And we always tease her about 'warsh'. It becomes such a deep, growly word.

-flyin"creek in the neck"gcats