"Clique": kleek? klick? breeches

[Wilson Gray]

On 1/4/06, FRITZ JUENGLING <juengling_fritz at salkeiz.k12.or.us> wrote:
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> Subject:      Re: "Clique": kleek? klick? breeches
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> How about 'breeches"?  This was an active part of my vocabulary growing
> up, not some word I learned thru reading.  For my family, it was always
> 'britches.'  Whenever I hear someone say 'breeches' I think that person
> doesn't know the word except thru reading (It also sounds way toooo long.)
> Fritz J
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You are correct, sir. Thank God that, so far, I haven't yet heard the
version with the spelling pronunciation.

-Wilson Gray

> 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
> > >
> > >
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> > > From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
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> > > 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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