Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

Tristan McLeay scripsit:

> 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).

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