Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 11:43:16 -0700 Stone Gordonssen
<stonegordonssen@...> writes:
> > > Anyway, until recently I would've put someone who ordered a
> >/fIlei/-o-fish
> > > into the same category as someone who shops at [ta:Z&i], till I
> >discovered
> > > that Americans (and one presumes the English) pronounce 'fillet'
> in a
> >way
> > > other than /fIl@t/.
> >
> >I think only North Americans say /fi"lei/.  It's part of our
> >general tendency not to naturalize foreign words (as much).
>
> And serious cooks world-wide.
actually, it's 'filet' that's pronounced /fI"lEj/ (but i usually say
/fI"lEt/ instead). 'fillet' would probably be /"fIlIt/ (with the second
/I/ usually realized as [@]).

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