<story><title>Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation</title><url>https://youglish.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjeaff</author><text>&amp;gt;It is from French after all.&lt;p&gt;And yet the British say &amp;quot;filet&amp;quot; with a hard &amp;#x27;t&amp;#x27;? I have never heard anything but the French pronunciation in the US.</text></item><item><author>NeedMoreTea</author><text>It only seems to be some Americans pronounce it nitch, so maybe regional there, though I couldn&amp;#x27;t guess where or which is most common. Here in the UK essentially always neesh.&lt;p&gt;It is from French after all.&lt;p&gt;Edit: American audiobooks on the other hand seem to go 100% with nitch for some unexplainable reason.</text></item><item><author>RugnirViking</author><text>When english results are split in engish it is usually american english vs british english (which is often also spoken in australia and india)&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t say if that is the case here, but that is what I would suspect. As a british person I have usually heard it and used it as &amp;#x27;neesh&amp;#x27;</text></item><item><author>overthemoon</author><text>This is very cool.&lt;p&gt;I looked up words that have always tripped me up, including banal, brood, indefatigable, preternatural, conch, niche. Indefatigable, banal, and conch had some conflicting ones but the &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; one occurred enough times that I got the idea. (&amp;quot;Brood&amp;quot; probably isn&amp;#x27;t commonly mispronounced, I just got it mixed up early in life and never quite got it sorted it out. :)&lt;p&gt;The results for &amp;quot;niche&amp;quot; are consistently mixed up though, which means that word will continue to drive me insane. Neesh or nitch!? I mix it up when I use it without any rhyme or reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taejo</author><text>I believe BEng distinguishes &amp;quot;fillet&amp;quot; (with a final &lt;i&gt;t&lt;/i&gt;) from &amp;quot;filet&amp;quot; (without), the former having been borrowed from French when it still had a &amp;#x2F;t&amp;#x2F; at the end, and the latter being a later re-borrowing (usually in phrases like &lt;i&gt;filet mignon&lt;/i&gt;). Something like &amp;quot;filet of fish sandwich&amp;quot; comes across as a humourously fancy name for a pretty ordinary meal.</text></comment>
<story><title>Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation</title><url>https://youglish.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jjeaff</author><text>&amp;gt;It is from French after all.&lt;p&gt;And yet the British say &amp;quot;filet&amp;quot; with a hard &amp;#x27;t&amp;#x27;? I have never heard anything but the French pronunciation in the US.</text></item><item><author>NeedMoreTea</author><text>It only seems to be some Americans pronounce it nitch, so maybe regional there, though I couldn&amp;#x27;t guess where or which is most common. Here in the UK essentially always neesh.&lt;p&gt;It is from French after all.&lt;p&gt;Edit: American audiobooks on the other hand seem to go 100% with nitch for some unexplainable reason.</text></item><item><author>RugnirViking</author><text>When english results are split in engish it is usually american english vs british english (which is often also spoken in australia and india)&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t say if that is the case here, but that is what I would suspect. As a british person I have usually heard it and used it as &amp;#x27;neesh&amp;#x27;</text></item><item><author>overthemoon</author><text>This is very cool.&lt;p&gt;I looked up words that have always tripped me up, including banal, brood, indefatigable, preternatural, conch, niche. Indefatigable, banal, and conch had some conflicting ones but the &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; one occurred enough times that I got the idea. (&amp;quot;Brood&amp;quot; probably isn&amp;#x27;t commonly mispronounced, I just got it mixed up early in life and never quite got it sorted it out. :)&lt;p&gt;The results for &amp;quot;niche&amp;quot; are consistently mixed up though, which means that word will continue to drive me insane. Neesh or nitch!? I mix it up when I use it without any rhyme or reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hahamrfunnyguy</author><text>In mechanical drawing terminology, we pronounce it with a hard &amp;quot;t&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Fillets or rounds are placed features that round off or cap interior or exterior corners or features of a part.</text></comment>