Cash-ay

[nq:1]In all too many American broadcasts from Iraq and Afghanistan I am now hearing of the discovery of "cash-ays of weapons. How do Americans spell the word they are pronouncing here?[/nq]
-- Cheers, Harvey

Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years; Southern England for the past 21 years. (for e-mail, change harvey to whhvs)

[nq:2]In all too many American broadcasts from Iraq and Afghanistan ... spell the word they are pronouncing here?[/nq]
cache or caches
[nq:1]-- Cheers, Harvey Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years; Southern England for the past 21 years. (for e-mail, change harvey to whhvs)[/nq]

[nq:1]cache or caches[/nq]
Can we get them to pronounce it properly, then?

Adrian

[nq:1]In all too many American broadcasts from Iraq and Afghanistan I am now hearing of the discovery of "cash-ays of weapons. How do Americans spell the word they are pronouncing here?[/nq]
"Cache." See The American Heritage Book of English Usage at

http://www.bartleby.com/64/C007/039.html

[nq:1]cache or caches[/nq]
Is a two-syllable pronunciation for "cache" very common? (I've never come across it, but that doesn't mean it's not in common usage.)

-- Cheers, Harvey

Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years; Southern England for the past 21 years. (for e-mail, change harvey to whhvs)

[nq:2] cache or caches[/nq]
[nq:1]Can we get them to pronounce it properly, then?[/nq]
As Maury Povich once said to his father: Shirley, you jest.

Even the M-W and AHD online dictionaries have only the "cash" pronunciation. Still, remembering how rapidly CUH-vert became coe-VERT, I would say it's only a matter of time until cash-ay creeps into the dictionaries (at least the Ameri

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[nq:1]Still, remembering how rapidly CUH-vert became coe-VERT . . . .[/nq]
It did? Egad. Is it also now oh-VERT?

-- Cordially, Eric Walker My opinions on English are available at http://owlcroft.com/english/

[nq:1]Is a two-syllable pronunciation for "cache" very common? (I've never come across it, but that doesn't mean it's not in common usage.)[/nq]
English has adopted the French word cachet as well as the French word cache, both pronounced very much as in French: but it seems some speakers muddle them.

-- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)

[nq:1]Is a two-syllable pronunciation for "cache" very common? (I've never come across it, but that doesn't mean it's not in common usage.)[/nq]
I haven't either. But they did it to "forte", so why not?

\\P. Schultz

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[nq:2]Still, remembering how rapidly CUH-vert became coe-VERT . . . .[/nq]
[nq:1]It did?[/nq]
No question about it. M-W online reflects this development: , as do AHD: and Encarta: . If you spend much time with news programs on American TV, you're ulikely to hear anything other than "coe-VERT." I think the hunters have preserved the traditional pronunciation for thei