"Clique": kleek? klick?

[Dennis R. Preston]

larry,

Mine are all lax; I don't know French (except to read linguistics
articles). This explains everything.

dInIs

>>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


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