So this has been bothering me for a long time. Cache, as in memory cache on your computer, or weapon cache where you stash a lot of weapons. It seems that a lot of people in Australia pronounce it "cay-sh" like creche. But it also seems the rest of the world pronounce it "cash" like cash money.
How do you pronounce it?
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I just hate people pounce the word as KaaaaShadeeee.
I start flipping tables when people pronounce it "Cash-Shay".
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Kay-shh - Aussie and right way
Some people pronounce it
Ka - sh - ayej - USA and along with “ attaché ”
And others just
Cash
In 'straya, It's caysh, all right
Don't care what those other countries with all their pronunciations are doing … never stopped us having our own lingo before…
Americans say things like lee-sure instead of leisure, datta instead of data, real-a-terr for real estate agent and a thing that floats in water for guiding boats is apparently a boo-ee - I'm not about to follow them into the "aluminum" "elevator" to say cache (as cash)!
I think it's a little different because so many Australians are completely unaware that the rest of the world says "cash". I mean I guess you're right, it's basically the local slang, but it's weird that most people who's say "caysh" are unaware that the rest of the world says "cash". I wonder if every Australian was suddenly aware of that if most of them would start saying "cash" instead.
Maybe they heard "weapons cash" in movies or the news and didn't even know it was the same word.
And if you look at it in the dictionary it says it is said "кIeꟻ" or some shit that no one actually knows how to interpret.
It's also weird that a lot of people don't seem to be aware of it. Maybe it developed in a time before YouTube tutorials, or maybe discussions about computer cache just don't lend themselves to the video format so those people never heard it said out loud, except when another Australian has mentioned it to them.
I feel like I want to spend years researching this and write a paper or a book about it. It feels different to most other Australian slang which usually feels more self aware.
I was aware but agree not as much of an obvious awareness as its not commonly used in TV shows and movies - that's our regular exposure to American pronunciation
I think you are right on the cash-money here. I guess most Australians (and Kiwis since they say caysh too) didn't realise a "weapons cache" was the same word. Since they never really saw it written down and only heard it on tv and movies - so presumably thought it was a "weapons cash". So when computer caches came about, they must have thought it was some new word that needed a new weird pronunciation.
I was thinking it might be related to Australians' propensity to saying the letter 'H' as haych, instead of the correct way - aych.
But then Kiwis don't say haych. Thats an Australian and Northern English bastardisation. Yet Kiwis say caysh. Its so weird.
Not as weird as necklace though. I mean I know its something lace-like that you wear around your neck. But thats not how its pronounced lol, thats exclusively Australian.
As an ex-Canuck it was always 'cash' for English speakers, but 'ca-shay' if you were using a more French style. For example, there's a town in the province where I grew up named Grande Cache and it would just sound weird to pronounce it with 'caysh'. I've since changed pronunciation over the years, mostly for the sake of being understood better.
I've had to do that with a few words - tomato is a prime example. However, I still to this day cannot pronounce 'OR-E-gano', it will always be 'o-REG-ano' for me. :)
Sadly, I say "o-re-GAN-no"…
Or simply.. GARNNO
What's origins of the word
According to this online dictionary it’s Spanish in origin and should be pronounced o-REG-ano. Wikipedia gives a US and a UK pronunciation, with the latter being ori-GA-no. So, both are technically correct, I guess. I’d love to check the Oxford dictionary but it’s behind a paywall - anyone her have a subscription?
Cache (cash) is the present tense French word for hide.
Caché and cacher (cashay) are past tense and future tense French word for hide.
'Cache' is definitely 'cash' not 'ca-shay' in French (including Canadian French)
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The only use of language is to communicate, it doesn't matter how you pronounce it as long as the person hearing understands. If they don't understand, then change the pronunciation.
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I say it 'kaysh'
I used to have a lecturer of Mathematics in university with Indian accent, who pronounced data as "dartar" and positive number as prostitute number. If you insist the Aussie way, expect anyone who didn't grow up in Australia have problems to catch the words.
I had a science teacher from Africa who pronounced "focus" like "(profanity)". He also liked to get high, I think our Christian school found him on a mission.
I say cash, I've also heard it said like cash-ay, but never heard cay-sh
This is one of my pet peeves. It's pronounced 'cash'. The word is both a noun and a verb. Try saying cache like 'kaysh' as a verb without it sounding ridiculous.
I don't think this is comparable to regional differences like router or tomato. Everyone in Australia pronounces it to-mah-toe.
I changed to toe-mae-toe based on mine and everyone else's pronunciation of potato.
"Cash it" sounds pretty funny
"He cashed his supplies"
"You will find it in the cash"
I'm on team cash too but, either sound pretty ridiculous to people who don't listen discuss some sort of cache, be it memory or weapons.
Ignore all the linguists here,
Whatever conveys the intended meaning across is probably the best.
I prefer the cash pronunciation because everyone would understand me in the context of discussing memory caches…
Employer: Could you please explain the 4 years gap in your resume.
Candidate: Oh, I went to yale.
E: Impressive, you're hired.
C: Thanks, I really need this yob.
Cache converters
I hereby propound we say "caSHAY"
Kash-ay
Many words have multiple correct pronunciations, router / rooter, gif/jif, dayta/darta
… but kaysh is just utterly bogan. It's not American or British or French, just dumb.
Comes from applying English phonetics to a French word you've never heard and just read, without bothing to check.
It's like Americans trying to pronounce coupé as koo or koop.
Hardware Unboxed pronounced it as 'cash' so not all Aussies pronounce it as 'cay-sh'
"catch" should also be a poll option
Catch-e
I mostly hear ca-shay or caysh, hardly ever hear cash
IT related: cay-sh
Orienteering related: cah-she
I used to say cash
Now after this thread i'mma say kaysh
Just to help differentiate the homophones
I've heard "catchy"
I think that's good, it's exotic.
i say caysh
'cash' is supposed to be correct but that sucks
I used to say cash now I say caysh
I used to say rooter now I say router (like the woodworking tool)
The latter after being in Australia for a few months and having a painful tech support phonecall with suppressed giggling from techy every time I said rooter.
Language is a contract to enable communication. There's no right or wrong way.
Except for yoghurt. You guys can all get f##ked if you think I'm ever going to say youghghurt
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"In England, 'booster shot' is spelled 'borcestershire shot'"
Cash. Trust me bro
I always pronounced it as cay-she, but then my university tutor laughed at me and said “it’s cash” :(
From then onwards I always said “cash”.