To say it’s “cliquey” not “clicky”

[Fortunesmiles]

Just that, really. I keep seeing things like “the parents at school are very clicky” - no! They form cliques, not clicks. Not normally one to comment on this stuff, but that one really makes me cringe!

@DemonicCaveMaggot Queue is basically a Q with a load of other random letters queuing up behind it :)

demoniccavemaggot oh god, that gives me a flashback to when I used to live somewhere with "Quay" in the name 😬. Your kids have something in common with every call centre operative in the kingdom.

I always imagine the group described strutting about like this

Oddly I can recall the exact moment I first heard someone say ‘click’ rather than ‘clique’ - it was said by Jade Goody on Big Brother. I remember at the time thinking ‘what is she going on about’?

French pronunciation:
There used to be an advertisement for some potion made in ‘Laboratoires Garnier Paris’. DS used to complain that if you wanted Laboratoires you should be consistent and pronounce it Paree.

We've been infected by the US pronunciation. They say click instead of cleek.

Don't be daft, this is MN, on here they're not cliques, they're quiches.... 🤣

Gawd, that brings back memories from many years ago!

I was really confused the first time I heard someone pronounce it"click"! But can't bring myself to pronounce paella correctly, even though I happily say choreetho...there is no logic sometimes. confused

Here's mine, though - how do you pronounce trough? Trow, or troff?

It always makes me think that the speaker/writer has been left out of a group because they are not very bright or socially aware and are bitter about it. In real life, I don't think cliques exist, they are just groups with things in common.

I used to annoy my American boyfriend I didn't really like by deliberately pronouncing quesadilla wrong, with the L's like Dillon. Every time he'd be like "you know that's a Spanish word, right? They pronounce that differently and you should learn that" followed by long and boring droning on about the difference in pronunciation between Spain and south America, as if that was new and specialist information.

Easy! Rhymes with cough, lough, bough, sough, dough, and though.

There was an episode on The Apprentice (I think) where they all talked about pie-ay-ay. The anglicised pronunciation is definitely preferable.

My favourite different American pronunciation is boo-ey for buoy.

@WuTangGran
Easy! Rhymes with cough, lough, bough, sough, dough, and though.

You're having a laugh aren't you? They don't all rhyme!!!

@ostentatiousocelot - it's troff of course!

I once had a Canadian friend just about bite his tongue off proving to me that paw, pore, pour and poor were all pronounced very differently. Idiot....

Who bloody cares I say tomato u say tomatoe you say cliques I say twats

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It's pronounciation. Some people pronounce clique as click. Like niche: neeshh or nich

Pronunciation.

I think it might be because they aren’t aware of the word ‘clique’ and think ‘clique-y’ is related to ‘clicking with’ someone.

I might be bias but they’re very clicky

I had an ex boyfriend who once pronounced Givenchy as ‘ga-venchy’

pandarific But that's the proper pronunciation!

You hate foreign words being pronouced they way they ought to be pronounced? How odd.

@crackofdoom really?? I’m 100% sure I’ve watched some of their perfume ads and it’s sounded like ‘Ji-vin-chi’.

I’ll have to go look now.