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!

Quick sott 🤣🤣🤣

@GoldenCupsatHarvestTimedo you say dove ette or du vay?

People say Quixotic (kwick sot ick).

Ive not heard kwick sott.

Like Sonique the hedgehog?

Yes, I say quick-zo-tic but Don Kee-ho-te. Be interested to hear how wrong that might be.

People say quick-sot-ick because the traditional, posh, British way to pronounce Quixote is quick-sott, and quixotic is an English word derived from the character. Paxman used to do it on University Challenge. It's only recently that people have started saying it in (kind of) the Spanish way.

Downie. I've been told I'm behind the times. At least I'm not still using blankets. Pardon me for answering someone else's question but the sun, that you have thanked fuck for, quite rightly so but I'd prefer if it didn't show up my need for housework, is over the yard arm 🍷

I've also heard poshos pronouncing Seville with the stress on the first syllable (rhyming with devil), when talking about marmalade. Chorizo didn't come up, unfortunately.

It's obviously pronounced "quicksot" or similar to make it rhyme in Lord Byron's poem Don Juan:

A jest, a riddle, Fame through thick and thin sought!
And Socrates himself but Wisdom's Quixote?

But in the expression 'to pay homage to' you don't say it à la français. 'Homage is a word that's been around in English for centuries so a Frenchified pronunciation in the UK is an affectation.

Hmmm no it’s not.

You wouldn't say omaage though. Yould say homidge

Nobody likes a smartarse.

Being an insufferable smartarse is literally what this board is for.

I wouldn't put a d in it, or pronounce it to rhyme with porridge. I wouldn't say 'omaaaage, all frenchified. I'd say hom-age, with an audible 'h' and a short 'a'.

It isn't and you are tiresome.

I say ommarge and Im not even posh.

I never say 'an 'istorical event'

I say, a historical event.

Im very contradictory.

I can move between cleekers and clickers. I'm trilingual from birth though and I feel very comfortable with people saying things in different ways.

Out of interest those who say click do they also say shick instead of sheek for chic?

Its true.

I had an email about this earlier today, MN are going to call this bit of the forum 'insufferable smart arse corner'.

I’d totally say Omarrrge!
Not posh either dude.

I refer you to the duvet question @ColdSpringHarbor 🤷🏻‍♀️

Very good question

Parfaite! 👏👏👏

It's British that's contradictory. When I was growing up (and I'm talking about the 90s, not the 50s) people often said "an historic" and "an hotel", with a hard aitch. It just seems intentionally perverse.

English is a hot mess of foreign words, trying to force pronunciation rules to them is tilting at windmills.

nitch caught me off guard this week