How to pronounce “desk clerk” in English

stifling daytime humidity had not quite relinquished its grip a giggling desk clerk set me straight the men were all

So the next morning I go back down, and the desk clerk, again, he's very curious.

And I was so excited that I wanted to run down and say, like to talk to the front desk clerk.

She looks him up and down, she says, ask the desk clerk.