Way back when I was young and thought I was tough I worked as a construction lineman. Our crew boss was a Colorado transplant and somehow one day the subject of "creek" and "crick" came up and he insisted that "crick" was not a word and was just dumb people not knowing how to pronounce "creek". After the conversation had been over with for quite sometime I walked by him, grabbed my neck, and started hollering "ow,ow,ow". He asked me what was wrong and I told him I had gotten a "creek" in my neck. He ignored me the rest of the day.
