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

[Simon,Beth]

Ah, now, I'm "sheek," but the jeans are "chick."

beth

American Dialect Society wrote:
>
> 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
>