[Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Re: RES: cache - cachet confusible

Robin Hamilton robin.hamilton3 at VIRGINMEDIA.COM
Fri May 26 17:53:27 UTC 2017


There's also a CLACK, which is a CLIQUE which CLAPS.

WIKI: "A claque is an organized body of professional applauders in French
theatres and opera houses. Members of a claque are called claqueurs."

R.

> 
>     On 26 May 2017 at 18:43 W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 
>     While we're on nativization/Anglicization of French expressions, I've just
>     recently heard on TV people (younger than me, naturellement) saying
>     <clique> [click], not [kleek] (generational/sociolectal variation). (In my
>     mind, this is the same sort of dysphony ~ euphony) felt in <creek> [crick
> ~
>     creak] (dialectal variation).)
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