I've never heard "fillet" pronounced that way before! But if you were trying
to not naturalise the word, wouldn't it be pronounced /fIjei/ instead?
Mike
> >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.
>
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