"Clique": kleek? klick?

[Laurence Horn]

>I don't trust my memory too much on this but I'm pretty sure it was
>"klick" when I was in high school in Lincoln NE in the 80s.
>
>I'd also say that's the dominant pronunciation today at least in the
>Midwest. I've done lots of interviews with high school students in
>Michigan, Indiana, and Missouri and never hear "kleek" from them.
>
>For those of you who use the tense vowel, i.e. "kleek", do you have
>that in the adjective 'cliquish' too? or maybe you don't use that
>adjective.
>
I do; both are tense.  I may be partly influenced by having been a
French major.

Larry