"Clique": kleek? klick?

[Alice Faber]

Click, nitch, feesh here.

FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf
> Of sagehen
> Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 4:02 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> 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.
> ~~~~~~~~~
> "Kleekish," when used.  Maybe we should say "cliquique!"
> AM
>
> A&M Murie
> N. Bangor NY
> sagehen at westelcom.com


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