It is pronounced cleek, not click!

[fancytoes]

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!

I think they say Chick 🙈🤣🐣

Instead of niche?

Omg this annoys me so much.

Aaahhhhh 'La Frick, cest Chick, Frick out'

Me too and it’s always been clique to me

Yes , Americans are very confusing

They wouldn't say choritzo though. They'd say chorisso.

That’s one way of describing them.

Pa ha ha 🤣🤣🤣

Parfait

Neesh or nish?

How about quiche?

My mum says kwinch

I know how to say most things correctly but I tend to say them in the English way as I sound like a knob suddenly saying a random Spanish pronunciation in between a London accent. People know what I mean.
I do say clique although I have been known to say clicky because most people think it’s correct to say clicky and when I say cleeky they think I’m pronouncing it wrong

But I’m female!

How do you say decoupage?

dee co page?

That does sound brilliant. I would love to hear you pay ommaage to someone in normal convo!!

Seriously who the hell pays HOMIDGE?!
Nigel Faridge eating his porridge?

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Sonique le Hedgehog?

Every time a Mner complains about a click in the schoolyard, I imagine the Sharks and the Jets snapping their fingers over the opening credits of West Side Story.

I thank you for drawing attention to this one, as I feel it is venturing into the same realms as ‘draw’ - I think many of the people who say and write ‘click’ think that’s the actual term and are completely oblivious.

Out of interest, does anyone here say lanzheree rather than lonzheray? Because lanzheree is surely closer to the French pronunciation of lingerie, but I've never heard anyone say it (even a smart arse pedant).

I do hate click for clique though. And I say gooseberry, not goozberry (to go back to a previous post). Is there a definitive Pedants' Corner line on that one?

Ive never pronounced it omaaage. It sounds hilarious. From saaf London so maybe thats why.

There was a tv documentary in the 70s where they were interviewing someone in a northern (I'm northern) working man's club. He said "It's like a clique. Know what I mean, a clique" but all pronounced as click. The interviewer clearly didn't know what he meant. Anyway, it became the family thing at any use of the word "clique" - "know what I mean, a click?".

I agree. I cringe when people take it too far, Rory Stewart comes to mind!
I guess it depends where you draw the line.