CLIK/CLEEK & NATIVE SPEAKER [was "FAG one last time"]

[Herb Stahlke]

I recall when Chic jeans came out in the 80s I heard my children
pronouncing the word as "chick".  I brought it up in a couple of
undergrad linguistics classes, at that time, and "chick" was the
nearly unanimous choice.

BTW, do "cleek" speakers say "cleekish" or "clickish"?

Herb

>>> johannaf+ at ANDREW.CMU.EDU 03/15/01 12:21PM >>>
    What about "chic"?  Does anyone pronouce this like "chick"?

    I personally remember pronouncing it like "chick" in middle
school
and being corrected immediately by a teacher.

    Johanna

Excerpts from mail: 15-Mar-101 Re: CLIK/CLEEK & NATIVE SPE.. by
"Peter
A. McGraw"@LINFIE
>
> The heavy majority for "click" so far has surprised me.  I
learned the word
> as "cleek" and still pronounce it that way on the rare
occasions when I use
> it at all.  I've heard "click," of course, and it bothered me
because 1) we
> already have a word pronounced that way and it means something
else, and 2)
> I figured that most people know the French sequence -ique is
pronounced
> [ik] (not [Ik]) in other words, whether they actually speak
French or not,
> so why wouldn't they follow the same pattern in this case?


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