"Clique": kleek? klick?

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:16 PM -0500 1/2/06, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>>As has been noted (OED2), *clique* is only 'kleek' in Britain and
>>consequently
>>for me.  But I've been interested to see in this discussion that not all
>>Americans say (only) 'klick'.  In interviews conducted around Philadelphia
>>(and
>>in conversation with colleagues from all over the States) I have only ever
>>heard
>>'klick', and, actually, when I first heard the word from a Philadelphian
>>interviewee, I needed an (internal) double-take to realise that what had just
>>been said wasn't some sense of *click* that I hadn't been familiar with.
>
>Today I asked two young persons; they are siblings; both have attended the
>same high school. One claims to use only "kleek", the other only "klick". I
>guess they must have been in different cliques at school. (Both are happy
>with "obleek" and "nitch".)
>
>-- Doug

Just checked with the nearest set of young persons/siblings here (not
counting the cats, who remained mum); son (23) and daughter (21) both
use "click" and claim to be unaware of any alternatives.  Guess they
didn't inherit my French-major tense-vowel gene, which is doubtless
recessive.

Larry