(For what it's worth, I'd say it *does* matter a great deal where one abides when one makes generalised statements about usages in places where one doesn't abide. And Richard no longer abides in New York.) But my statements are always

The old pronunciation is cloze (actually kloz - the o ... including Shakespeare (The up he rose and donned his clothes). -snip- (Fowler's "Modern English Usage, second edition revised by Sir Ernest Gowers). This is the reason I distrust

The old pronunciation is cloze (actually kloz - the o with an overline instead of an underline), with ample authority from rhymes in 17th-c and 18th-c poets, including Shakespeare (The up he rose and donned his clothes). But this is often

From the Times, or maybe it was the Journal: Certain ... ask the maker to find out if rennet is added. My turn, Charles, I don't get it. It is, of course, On Topic(1). Furthermore, the subject of vegetarian cheese has come up before in this