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posted by [personal profile] askye at 01:51pm on 10/04/2003
It's beyond wrong that I live in N Fl and the high today is 59F.

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. I'm wearing my jacket in class.

A quick question for the people out there that really know words.

Is there more than one way to pronounce "cache"? I pronounce it and have always heard it pronounced to rhyme with "cash". But some general on FOX NEWS...well, okay it's a press conference that everyone is showing, was talking about weapons caches and pronounced it as "sash-says." Is that right as well?

The dictionary in the classroom and the dictionary sites I've looked at haven't been a help.
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posted by [identity profile] sumik.livejournal.com at 11:07am on 10/04/2003
I think you are right.

Plus, even if it were two syllables the c followed by an a would most likely be hard -- assuming, of course, that French is anything like Italian.
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posted by [identity profile] mearagrrl.livejournal.com at 11:17am on 10/04/2003
Well, there's the word that's pronounced "cash-ay", but that's cachet, "A mark or quality, as of distinction, individuality, or authenticity: “Federal courts have a certain cachet which state courts lack”" (from dictionary.com). So....that'd be a big vote for Fox News Is Crazy.
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posted by [identity profile] askye.livejournal.com at 02:31pm on 10/04/2003
This guy was talking about caches of weapons only prouncing it like cash-ays, which perked my ears up and made me wonder. He was an Army dude so I figured he'd know how to say it but I've never heard cache pronounced that way.

Cash-ay of weapons just sounds wrong.
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posted by [identity profile] mearagrrl.livejournal.com at 02:40pm on 10/04/2003
Heh. Now I"m imagining someone talking about "Well, there is a certain cachet to having chemical and biological or nuclear weapons!"

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posted by [identity profile] askye.livejournal.com at 02:54pm on 10/04/2003
I think what he said was "We are finding cachets of weapons..." blah blah.

What he was trying to say was that the US military was finding caches of Iraqi weapons. Our president can't pronounce nuclear right, but a spokesperson and presumably a general or other high ranking officer of the Army can't even use the right word when talking about weaponry. I worry about this country.
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posted by [identity profile] lysana.livejournal.com at 11:20am on 10/04/2003
You're correct. Sounds to me like someone managed to confuse cache and cachet with a really weird twist.
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posted by [identity profile] vwbug.livejournal.com at 01:12pm on 10/04/2003
It's beyond wrong that I live in N Fl and the high today is 59F.

Well then, it must be even wronger (I know, I know...more wrong...I'm using it for effect) that I am walking around without a jacket today because the sun is shining and it has hit 45F! 59F sounds like heaven.
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posted by [identity profile] askye.livejournal.com at 02:40pm on 10/04/2003
Okay, you're taunting me aren't you...It's cold outside damnit! It's going to be cold tomorrow. I have to go dig out my sweaters. This isn't fair...
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