Hmmm

[gsh]

I pronounce the word "cache" as "cash". I was with a co worker, who when he cleared the cache on his IE program, pronounced it in the french way "ca shay". Is that an acceptable pronouncation?

Comments

Re: While we're grammatically nit-picking.

[debboamerik.livejournal.com]

Excuse me for being unclear; I was speaking about the original meanings of the words, which are French.

Ah-ha!

[elkor.livejournal.com]

Then I qualify my commentary by specifying it's application to English/American usage.

I speak not the French language, so don't know the application of "cache" for said usage.

Re: Ah-ha!

[debboamerik.livejournal.com]

Interesting how many of our words have entered the language from French, even well after the Norman conquest.

Words of French origin in the above sentence (to the best of my knowledge): Interesting, entered, language, French, Norman, conquest.

OK, that was just me being silly. (But it's true.)

Re: Ah-ha!

[elkor.livejournal.com]

Ditto for Spanish, German and (to a lesser extent) Italian.

It's quite an amalgom.

Re: Ah-ha!

[debboamerik.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure French and German lead, though, for good historical reasons. I always find this stuff fun.