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#68527 05/05/02 12:17 AM
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I have an English friend who hired a new manservant. The second day on the job he was asked to lay out Lord Plushbottom's shooting clothes. What Lord P found was a seersucker suit with SPATS!!

Lord P has now written a memoir of this fellow's short tenure: How Green was My Valet.



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"fill-AYs" was a ridiculously pretentious

As long as we're discussing restaurant pronunciations, pretentious and otherwise, may I ask for another poll: How do you-all pronounce FLAN (the fruit/custard tart)? We've always pronounced it with the same *a as in *cat. A server in a restaurant once asked if we'd like the *flahn, prompting my husband to ask if the flahn was baked in a flahn pahn. Anyway, I'm very curious as to which is more common, and whether we're saying it wrong. (I know I could LIU, but I'm more interested in how it's said in different places.) Thanks!


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it looks so far as though the poll is heavily in favor of "fil-lay" over "fil-let".

No, no, no! The poll is heavily in favour of "vall-ay" (or even "val-lay") over "vall-et".

"Fill-ay v fill-it" is a totally separate red herring / kettle of fish (so to speak!)

I am British.

I say "vall-ay"
I say "fill-it"
I say "fill-ay mignon", but in this case I (think I) spell it 'filet'. So as far as I'm concerned it's a separate word, although cognate.

(How am I doing at confusing this thread? )




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the flahn was baked in a flahn pahn

ROFL!! that is *classic!!!

except perhaps in cases of obvious affectation, here in CA i've only heard it to rhyme with can, not cannes.

*well acksherly i pretty much pronounce 'cannes' to sound like can, too, but it's about 50/50 between can and cahn, i guess. what say you guys?


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Australian pronouciation:

val-ay
fill-et
Chevy
aluminIum!

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Let's hear it for varlet parking.


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Good one Bill


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valet and ballet both pronounced with the final vowel being the name of the first letter of the alphabet.

fillet as fill it.

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Bridget wrote:
I am British.

I say "vall-ay"
I say "fill-it"
I say "fill-ay mignon", but in this case I (think I) spell it 'filet'. So as far as I'm concerned it's a separate word, although cognate>>>>>

Unsurprisingly, as a Brit living in Sydney, Australia, I entirely concur.

What about "herbs"? I seem to remember a board where we discussed whether the h is aspirated or not. I assume that it comes down to the same USn/Can. v the rest divide??
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