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Will Someone Please Tell The Newscasters on WHDH Boston... That the word "cache", as in a "cache of weapons", is pronouned like "cash"! It is not pronounced "cashay"! I've heard this mispronunciation on the air on the channel 7 news twice in recent weeks. Aaaaargh!!!! It just makes me cringe! The Boston audience is probably the best educated of any US major media market, but you'd probably never know if you listen to the local newscasters, would you? "Cashay"... that's how you pronounce the word "cachet", which has a completely different meaning from "cache"! They both come from the same French root "cacher", but in English they are different words, with different meanings and different pronunciations! This one bugs me even more than the mis-spelling of "complementary" as "complimentary" (or vice versa), which I guarantee I will see at least once in the slides, signs or handouts at any technical conference. I guess I should forgive that one, though, because at least computer folks will never mispronounce "cache".
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