Valet doesn't know how to say valet
Why did they let the valet say he was a VAL-ett?
shareFrom Archer season 3 episode 4:
"Isn't pronounced va-LAY?"
"Only if he's parking your car."
I believe that 50 years ago, in Britain in particular, "valet (rhyming with "wallet") was the norm.
But the French pronunciation "Val AY") has become common today.
I would have felt like an idiot saying val-ette either in grammar school in 1954, or today. Anywhere. It's just unspeakably clueless.
shareI agree with Archer. If I want someone to park my car then va-LAY it is, but a gentlman's personal gentleman should be pronounced va-lett. The greatest valet ever, Reginald Jeeves, was always referred to as a va-lett.
shareI was wondering the same thing. Cary Grant himself pronounces it that way later on.
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It was pronounced with a T in Downton Abbey, which was a bit odd at first, but then it was the early 1900s.
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