My understanding as a Brit, supported by the Chambers C20 dictionary, is that filet (pronounced -ey) and fillet (pronouncet -et) are separate English words; both derived from the French word filet, but with different meanings. Filet relates to an undercut of beef (tenderloin) – as in filet mignon. Fillet is the’strip’ meaning, so you can have a fillet of pork, chicken, beef, leather, wood, etc. I know the name of the salmon filet, but the product is not a salmon filet.

Someplace along the line, a fillet of fish or meat was understood to be without bones, hence part of the preparation of a fillet was to remove the bones and so in a culinary context ‘filleting’ became synonymous with removing bones.

Also in French, Filet (derived from the Latin ‘filum’) can mean mesh – as in a tennis net. In other contexts, embroidery is used and embroidery has the meaning “dedication.”

Does the fillit weld work?

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