"Clique": kleek? klick?

[FRITZ JUENGLING]

For me, it's:
click
nitch
and fish (fiche)

I remember years back some people (maybe it was the crotchety old librarians) ranting and raving not only about the vowel, but even the 2nd consonant--that was supposed to be pronounced something like German '(i)ch'.  All those people did was cause themselves headaches, I think.
Fritz J

>>> JMB at STRADLEY.COM 01/03/06 12:10PM >>>
        My wife and I say "klick" and, for the adjective form,
"klickie."

John Baker


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Subject: Re: "Clique": kleek? klick?

Matthew J. Gordon writes:
>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.
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"Kleekish," when used.  Maybe we should say "cliquique!"
AM

A&M Murie
N. Bangor NY
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