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Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

From:Phillip Driscoll <phild@...>
Date:Thursday, October 9, 2003, 0:18
Tristan McLeay wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Christophe Grandsire wrote: > > > En réponse à Tristan McLeay : > > > > >'Filet', being a French word, would be pronounced in a less nativised
way.
> > >'Fillet', being an English word, would probably be pronounced in a > > >nativised way. > > > > But we were talking about the word "filet" only. > > Actually, we've been talking about 'fillet', e.g. the McDonalds burger > Fillet-o-Fish.
Some years ago, McDonalds ran some advertisements for the fish sandwich (fish roll?) with a cartoon-character fish whose name was "Phil A. O'Fish." --Ph. D.

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