Oooh, I just saw a "spicket" usage in the wild!

[conuly]

I was looking up how to repair the shower diverter, and hopefully all it needs is a good clean and not actual repair work, but anyway, there it was - somebody saying "spicket" where I'd say "faucet" or maybe "tap".

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Comments

[pauamma]

I don't have full access to DARE, but "spicket" seems derived from "spigot".

[conuly]

Yes, I know. I've just never seen it in the wild before.

[conuly]

For that matter, I don't see "spigot" very often either!

[pauamma]

Google Ngrams says "spigot" is more common. "spicket" is barely above the x axis.

[conuly]

Yes, I think it's a Sourthernism, iirc. Which would exlain why I in particular have not found it in the wild before, lol.

[ironymaiden]

It's definitely in use in PA, or was when I lived there

[the_siobhan]

I *think* spigot is more common in the UK, so it would make sense that the Southern US would use a word derived from it. (My amateur understanding is the southern US is the closest to the way English was spoken/pronounced when English-speakers first got the the Americas.)

[movingfinger]

From the NE US, I used "spigot," then moved to the West and learned that "hose bib" is a common term here.

[the_siobhan]

Oh that's a new one on me!

[vvalkyri]

Yeah this

[moxie_man]

Spicket, mispronouncing Spigot. Outdoor water tap/faucet. I've heard the term a few times up here in Maine.

[conuly]

Native speakers do not make mistakes in their own speech. The term "mispronounce" is incorrect for any usage that's widespread for a particular speech variety. And really, it's not wanted when I made the post to celebrate encountering a usage I've read about but haven't seen before.

[8hyenas]

i am a spigot/spicket person, and it took looking at these comments for me to be able to spell it. Very much a verbal word.

[hashiveinu]

I had never heard this word before.

[james]

I did not know spicket was a valid spelling of spigot. Those wacky Easterners! ;-)

[sabotabby]

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This is one of the more weirdly optimistic things I've read in awhile, which just tells me how bad things are.

[thewayne]

I'd always heard it as spigot, wouldn't surprise me if there are alternate spellinks. And there's always the east/west thing.

[wpadmirer]

Spigot, and it is a faucet. It's the kind you used to see on sides of houses for hoses. I grew up calling that a spigot.

[elainegrey]

Southeastener here and always thought of spigots at the outside of the house faucet, eg one valve, no hot water.

Wikipedia's take:

Spigot is used by professionals in the trade (such as plumbers), and typically refers to an outdoor fixture.[1]
Silcock (and sillcock), same as "spigot", referring to a "cock" (as in stopcock and petcock) that penetrates a foundation sill.
Bib (bibcock, and hose bib or hosebibb), usually a freeze-resistant version of a "spigot".
Wall hydrant, same as "hosebibb".

[wpadmirer]

Wikipedia backs us up! YES!

[conuly]

*shrugs*

But no dictionary can be wholly comprehensive of all regionalisms.

[adafrog]

Wow.

[foms]

I'd never heard of the spicket variation. Cool. Before today, I would have said that spigot is the word for the hole through which the flow of stuff occurs and that faucet is the word for the valve that controls the flow. I grew up in English and French, in French Canada, for what it's worth.

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