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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you say "niche"?
I always avoid saying that word allowed [/quote]

neesh

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No way really??? I heard it pronounced “nitch” on TV the other day and assumed I’d been saying it wrong . Because I don’t actually know. [/quote]

I just Googled it and "nitch" is the Americanized version that was most common up through the 20th C, and "neesh" is more British/Canadian/Int'l (and now social media, apparently). It vindicates my belief that I've heard it as "nitch" for almost my entire life (born 1978), but my teenaged daughters were trying to convince/gaslight me the other day that "neesh" is and has always ever been the only correct pronunciation and "nitch" is just flat out wrong. Not exactly true.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/niche[/quote]

If you want to stick close to the original French word, it's neesh. Which is why the UK and Canada pronounce it like that.
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Same for clique: kleek. Often if it's a French word that ends in e, you need to elongate the vowel sound that comes before the terminal e.
Baguette is bag-ay-tt, not bag-ett.

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