In my question the

person who asked it could not have understood my English better. First note that you are completely wrong regarding the pronunciation of your name. several pronounce the “engineering” sense both ways, and many pronounce the “meat” sense both ways.

more subtlety, there are any number of engineer-chefs who pronounce both in mode A (identically), are any number of engineer-chefs who pronounce both in mode B (identically), are any number of engineer-chefs who pronounce them A/B, and any number of engineer-chefs who pronounce them B/A.

Although there are examples of similar words being used, it is obvious to the word-thinker that it is the same word. (filet – “strip of”)

it’s no funnier than if I said “chunk of meat” versus “chunk of leather”. “piece of meat” versus pieces of leather or a “strip of meat” versus a “strip of leather”.

Again it’s the same word – it’s that very simple. (fillet – strip. origin ‘thread’ in frogs.. origin ‘thread’ in fish. As utterly

un-mysterious. (Note that some words are pronounced variously is.. totally.. commonplace.

(2) If I’m not mistaken you are fundamentally asking: “Hey – are there two words, which have absolutely different origins, which in fact are pretty similar sounding or identical?? I really don’t know, I imagine the answer would be “yes”. Just a thought…what makes a question good and good? “fillet” had utterly no relationship, to this question. (Note that “fillet” has no relation, to this question. If that is just one word which

means “Strip”.) (3) I agree completely that’s it an interesting observation, that, there is becoming something of a tendency for a given particular person, to pronounce “filet” in two different ways!

I think even the people who consistently say “fill-ett” in all situations, would say “fillay” when they are saying filet mignon.. again, even if they are in the camp of saying “fill-et” when talking about a strip of chicken, cheese, leather, whatever… Again, there

are some people who do this (“pronounce one word two ways”), I probably

do it with words I can’t think of just now, and you

make a fascinating observation.

Could the word fillet be a word about to split into two words over time?

(And that’s kind of the opposite of your thought-question right.. you were wondering if it came from, if it is currently, two different-origin words? You’ve

now got me thinking of words which are often a little more bizarre than other words? …

(a) have two (or more) common pronunciations this usually due to English speakers being both incredibly pretentious about yet staggeringly ignorant about the pronunciation of unimportant foreign words, or, due to the vast variations in the various world forms of English, (b)

where a

given single person, will, on different occasions or for different uses, pronounce the word the two different ways I can’t think

of any yet, perhaps someone can!

Craig Reid is an outstanding example of a phenomenon called route.

As a curiosity: for the “standard” answer to such questions:

you have to look at the sentence formulas currently read by the two major GPS (sat nav) makers, TomTom and Garmin.

What are the world’s most important platforms?

Is it an interesting curiosity that that is kind of the “new OED”?

I’m pretty sure they state the situation first, rather than “take the first exit at the Roundabout”)

But when OP states you have to cross the street, or to take the exit at roundabout, that is OK and you should use this as your guide. I assume that the other platform assumes I walked or had been there when I walked by?

When developing software, you should check the current Garmin/TomTom formulas.