not a native English word but rather a French loanword used in a specialized and exclusively culinary sense? "Fillet" (with the double L) means something rather different, being that it's a carpentry term! People are pronouncing it correctly! And I will honestly take an attempt to pronounce a loanword similarly to the original, over butchery like "kamakazzi" (from the Japanese "kamikaze", which is pronounced more like ka-mi-ka-zeh for the record). Don't even get me started on the horrid action-movie-originated mistranslation/mispronunciation "mano-ay-mano, man-to-man", what is that I don't even. "If I'm having a bad day, or a good day -- make that any kind of day -- I do not want people in shops whom I've never met to swaddle me with their sticky, earnest, exaggerated niceness. In America, actual humans say things like "Ma'am, you have been an awesome customer today," just because I bought a box of tampons from their store." That "sticky, earnest, exaggerated niceness"? That there is FORCED on us. Retail workers in America -- especially in major chains! -- have a horrifying rate of "job stress" and depression, in part due to crappy wages, sure, but really because we get crappy wages and then have to fake cheer our way through the day, no matter how we actually feel, and no matter how poorly we're treated by jerk customers or unpleasant management, etc. Oh, and we have set scripts we have to follow! At my work, I'm literally supposed to react cheerfully and super-helpfully to EVERY