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?
It's a bit distinct.
The sound ranges from: Katss, Kuhsh, Cahsh, Kaysh, Kaytch, Caeytchh. And in general people would understand what you're saying regardless of how you're pronouncing it above.
I think it's a bit of a mix between "cash" and "catch".
Like how there are no poll options because there's only one correct answer.
And everyone is wrong.
My experience in Aus tech is that caysh is the much more prevalent pronunciation.
This is the waysh
'I’m now going to use that word. Zwischenspeicher'
Driving in Germany last century I would often hear on the car radio announcements starting with 'Zwischen'
as I was just learning basic German I had to ask someone, who then told me "oh this is normale - old people driving the wrong way on the autobahn - so 'between here and here locations look out for a car driving the wrong way'"
'Zwischen' meaning 'between'
also reminded me of similar favourite word Zwiebel - meaning onion … (tsveebel)
So when we say L1$ L2$, $ isn't cash?
Cash.
you need a good reason for it to be pronounced the same and therefore the potential of conflating it with the already existing pronunciation of 'money'…
like there is not enough other words with confusing pronunciations to make life difficult. keep it simple. its cash 😑
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it takes more energy and time to pronounce it other way.
you need a good reason for it to be pronounced the same and therefore the potential of conflating it with the already existing pronunciation of 'money'…
You're. Your. Yore.
Rose (flower)
Rose (past tense of Rise)
Rows (plural of row (as in of chairs))
Row's (possessive of row)
Rows (third person present tense of to row (as in a boat))
Roes (collections of fish eggs)
Rhos (plural of the Greek letter rho)
Ro's (possessive of the contracted form of the name Rosemary)
Don't even get me started on contranyms. You can "dust" something by removing fine particles, or you can "dust" something by sprinkling fine particles over it.
my point exactly.. english already has waay too many of these
@Jaspa7: The context of any conversation is going to indicate whether they mean a cache or money. I can't think of any sentences where it wouldn't be painfully obvious.
@stumo: Kind of an odd thing to say if you're referring to CPU cache as it's fixed and it's not like you can pop down to the store and buy more.
But even still, that sentence alone would never be uttered randomly. You'll say it to someone, in an environment and conversation where context makes it obvious.
@NuclearWessels: Im talking i486 here. You had to buy separate SRAM chips in DIP packages for the cache.
So you need a good reason for deer-dear for-four etc as well?
Rite write right. Sew soar so interesting.
By buy bye.
There, their, and they're…?
How do you pronounce caching, recache or memcache?
Cashing, recash, memcash.
Ka-sing, ree-kas and mem-kas?
And by that logic cached = kast?
Sounds weird to me
@AustriaBargain: Bold claim for someone who has just spent the last three posts talking non-stop about cash.
I don't know why this is triggering me but it is and i don't appreciate it! Its kayshing, rekaysh and memkaysh. Why not pronounce the first C as you would for cup, a hard C. Catching, Recatch and memcatch
Ca$$$h cha ching
Cashay
Came to say this, any other pronunciation is plain wrong :)
I'm not actually saying cay-sh is right, but I think I misunderstood how to create a poll so I'm adding it now. I think cash must be right. But Australians seem to exclusively say cay-sh, at least in SA. I think I really misunderstood how to create a poll because suggestions need to be moderated…
Australians also pronounce Router like 'out', because we can't be trusted to pronounce it 'Rooter' with a straight face like the English.
A router ('rooter') sends network traffic on routes ('roots').
To rout something is to send it into disarray. So a rout-er is the last thing that you'd want on your network.
When I was a network engineer, I used to get funny looks from my USA-brainwashed colleagues.
Oh, and it's pronounced 'cash', says Oxford.
Oxford says terf is a word, your incorrect way of pronouncing 'caysh' is now dismissed.
Oh JFC don't get me started on American pronunciations
Just start singing “route 66”
Rooter innit?
Dame Edna Everage: 'I like to come back to Australia - it's where my roots are' (meaningful stare)
Watching late night TV David Letterman Late Show years ago - a repeat guest Nicole Kidman walked on, sat down, turned and said to Dave in a Heavily Meaningful tone 'so Dave … how about a ROOT !???'
I nearly fell off my chair !
Dave - looking nonplussed - paused for a couple of seconds then posited 'you mean - like a cheroot … ?' [to smoke like a cigarette]
Nicole scanned the audience, pointed at one guy (guess Australian with his jaw dropped) and screamed with delight 'HE KNOWS !!!'
This was when she was married to Tom Cruise - who had spent time in Oz and I'm sure put her up to this prank - she would have been 'are you sure ???' - he would have been yeah 99% of US people won't know …
extending the analogy - during WWII when US troops were billeted in Oz - stories went around that both US males and Oz females thought the other was 'fast' (about getting into bed) - turned out Oz females expected to kiss on the first date then take many dates before getting into bed with - US males expected to take many dates to get to the first kiss, which then meant the girl was ready to jump into the sack now - so at the end of the first date, Oz girl let the US guy kiss her - he went 'wow - xmas has come ! LET'S GO BABY !' - and both were surprised and overwhelmed …
so all those romantic US movies which end with the couple kissing - which as an Oztraylian I always thought was meaningless pabulum - no, that actually meant the romantic couple was OMG gonna have SEX NOW ! (close curtains - run trailer - come back for more next week)
I always pronounced it that way as I assumed it was pronounced the same as the carpentry tool.
The pronunciation comes from how they respective countries pronounce route.
In British English, roo-tuh
In American English, rau-tr
Both are correct.
Oh absolutely, I just find it fascinating where it’s one of the few instances Australia has adopted the American pronunciation instead of the English.
"I rooted the rooter and now it's rooted"
Something like "Kaytch"
Like saying cash/kash but with an added e at the end which is still silent.
cashie ?
cashe
dodgy tradie has entered the chat
Uni lecturer used to pronounce it as 'catch-e'… maybe not surprising if you hadn't heard the word or looked it up in the dictionary but he was the information systems 101 lecturer.
😂😂
letcherers tend to misspronounce words
I've never heard anyone say it "ka-shay", as in cachet, but adding it just in case.
You mean just in cache
Eshay Bra
You forgot the third option of caché and for me at least, it depends on the context to which way the word it said.
But for arguments sake, 'kay-sch'.
Yeah, it's the same word, but as it typical Americans f-d it up.
It's Kash-ay, and still should be any time someone's for instance talking about a weapons cache
It's only "kaysch" in tech because 'murica. Having said that, I go with the flow, and say that if i am talking about CPU memory, because thats how it's been said for in tech for ages
This "kash" business is just a further bastardisation of the language, people not wanting to sounds French or like a fairy. It's wrong
cashay
Like Sash-ay (sachet).
Kay-sh for me. At least in SA. Cash just sounds weird.
It's only 'weird' because the correct pronunciation is unfamiliar to you. Familiarity comes with practise.
Kash
What's the difference between cash and kash?
Just highlighting the hard k sound in the pronunciation opposed to a soft c
None, it's just clearer because some "c" are pronounced as "s" instead of "k" e.g. city, cent, certain.
The "k" in kash can't be pronounced any other way.
"Data" would probably be a more interesting discussion. Some Australians pronounce it the British "day-tuh" way and some the American "dah-tah".
as for the pronunciation of data - "dah-tah" is at least consistent as to how to pronounce the 'a's..
if "day-tuh" is acceptable, then why not..
caravan as "cay-ruh-vein"
camaro as "cuh-may-ro"
catalogue as "ca-tay-log"
etc…
@Jaspa7: why does laughter become slaughter when as S added the the front
english language is extremely inconsistent
I've been saying it as cake.
As in have your cache and eat it too.
STOP EATING MY SESAME CACHE!
Shut your cache hole!
Cae-sh
chash
Cashay
Kaysshhh
I normally pronounce it as cache
Kay-sh
Ignore everyone above, they are just trying to make you embarrass yourself.
It is pronounced :
Ka-chay.
That's only if you say it in a posh accent.
I cache my cache of cache for the cachet.
Caysh.
But I also do not remember the last time I needed to say this word.
Kaysh or Kash.
Kah-shay is wrong and what people are saying is the word “cachet” which means something different…
Saying Kah-shay when you mean kaysh should be an instant Will Smith level slap in the mouth offence.
The same way I pronounce Data
Darter?
day-ter
American?
Dat-tah
sounds like 'dotter' - a US pronunciation of 'daughter'
Carsh
I've been calling her Crandall!
cashew
Bless you
Pro tip - If you pronounce it cash-ay you can trigger both the “cay-sh” and “cash” people at the same time…
Brings back embarrassing memories… said "cash-ay" once and my colleague stared at me like I'm a dumb ass…
cashay
Caysh
cash
I popped it into translate to hear what the English version is. “Cash” sounds so wrong.
+1 for cay-sh
My translate was set to German and I’m now going to use that word. Zwischenspeicher. Much better