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So are you saying that you use "fillit" as a verb to produce a "fillay" ?
Dear Alex,
Not quite. I mean that the guys who go fishing are not the same guys who work in and run what they believe to be a fancy restaurant. So to the fishing guys, it's fillit, and to the snobby restaurant staff, it's fillay, in their I'm-better-than-you kind of way. Y'know?
Edit: no slight intended to restaurant staff in general there. Just the ones at this particular restaurant in this particular chain, which shall remain nameless.
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central Massachusetts: val-lay
(also bee-day, and I mean "bidet," not the anniversary of one's birth)
Anybody here say anything but "shev-ro-lay" for the car?
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Anybody here say anything but "shev-ro-lay" for the car?
well, we'd always say "Chevy", but maybe that's b/c everyone around here drives suburbans* (sorry, hyla and helen, but i have an excuse; our kids don't all fit in a regular sedan).
as for "Chevrolet", though... something always makes me want to metathesize it to "Shivel-Ray", and i'm thinking maybe this stemmed from a movie, way back when?
* For the record, *MY* suburban is a GMC, my *husband's is a Chevy. it's not uncommon to see bumper stickers that say "Friends don't let friends drive Chevy's[sic]". i've no idea why GMC has a better rep than Chevy, seeing as they're pretty much the same company. *shrug*
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Stales ~ it's val-AY here in California.
and if you were to order a "FILL-et" in a restaurant, you'd see the sides of the waiter's mouth twitch as he struggled to maintain his composure.
i've had the 'fillet' discussion with one of the board's antistoecon-inclined ayleurs before, and he insisted that calling them "fill-AYs" was a ridiculously pretentious nod to its french roots... so does that mean that when you poms order a steak you call it "FILL-et MIGG-nawn"? or are you selectively euphuistic?
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Well, it looks so far as though the poll is heavily in favor of "fil-lay" over "fil-let". BUT it also looks as if the poll is all US, has but limited representation from "British-English" speakers, and therefore is not [yet] to be taken as authoritative, even among such linguaphiles as this Board represents.
Perhaps we could hear from more non-USns?
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something always makes me want to metathesize it to "Shivel-Ray"Apparently, Shivel-Ray is not dead. 
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Birmingham, Alabama: val - lay.
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