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Fascinating twu,
You really are loosening up these days - is it medication? Take several doses of meaningless drivel daily and you too can sound like Jazzoctopus.
We did discuss the re-Franglicisation of words in the mists of time. Another usage that non-US English speakers find strange is fillet (feel-lay) rather than our fil-let. There was a rather sensible proposal that if a word has been absorbed into the English language for more than 100 years, then it's just tough - we pronounce it our way. If it's a new word then we'll use the pronunciation from the country which donated the word. (Anyway isn't l'erbe something to do with grass, not herbs?)
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