It is pronounced cleek, not click!

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I am no SPAG pedant as I am rubbish at it, but I am a pronunciation pedant.

Please, if this is you, change your ways!

And also cliquey = cleeky.

Click is an Americanism I think. My colleagues in Texas used it, took me a long time to understand they meant clique.

I’ve noticed living in the US that click is the standard pronunciation here.

I’m a born and bred Londoner and it’s always been click as long as I’ve known

I’m a Londoner, too. Always heard cleek. Parce que c’est un mot français.

I agree, and it’s happening almost every wique.
😉😁.

Londoner here too - always cleek as far as I'm concerned.

What's even worse is when people actually write "click" and "clicky"!

Don’t get me started on saying ‘nitch’ for niche…

No it hasn't. It's a French word and there's a right way to pronounce it. Rhymes with leek. No one I know in SE says "click'.

TBF, in the US they make a better stab at homage than we do.

Definitely ‘cleek’ - anyone who says ‘click’ is judged harshly by me. It’s like ‘unique’ or Sonique (the singer) - I have no idea why anyone would think it was pronounced differently?

Yeah, there are absolutely loads of French words in the English language that are pronounced incorrectly, from a French perspective. The UK version of "clique" is probably one of the few exceptions. But it's the same for all borrowed / incorporated foreign words - where do you draw the line and why?

It's one pronunciation. Lots of people in the US say "cleek", including me.

I have noticed this on US television shows which is where my partner also says click from and doesn’t believe me that it’s clique 🤦🏻‍♀️

(And don’t get me started on marshmEllows… they literally come from marsh flower originally. It’s marshmallows!!)

Deee-Lite’s ‘World Clique’ begins: “We don’t need a clique/to make our clock tick”. And on the chorus, such as it is, she ain’t singing ‘cleek’.

This is horrific.

Good question. My way is always the correct way.

Londoner born and bred here too. Always cleek.

I think because we are uncomfortable in this country pronouncing foreign words with their pronunciation or accent

So I will sometimes say choreetho. But normally find myself saying Choritzo because I dont want to sound affected

As long as you're not like those Americans who insist on pronouncing Spanish words and names with an affected Spanish accent. It's only ever Spanish they do this with as well, you never hear them do it for, say, Japanese.

Can you imagine if this went both ways, and Spanish-speakers started affecting e.g. a brummie accent when they say Birmingham?

It's only in Spain where they speak with the lisp anyway. In every other Spanish and Portuguese speaking country, they would not say choreetho.

They say 'erb' dont they

Irritates me a lot. Alot.

They still wouldnt say choritso, they would say choreeso, without the London hardness.

(and coming back to posts above, Im a Londoner but I say clique)

But herb is a French word, so by the logic of this thread, they are correct. The French basically don't use consonants.

Well so is entrepreneur and you know the French dont have any of those.

Herb is an English word. Its a French word when its erb.

The Americans speak English.