Pronunciation of caching!

Rabbitto · Post by **Rabbitto** » 17 May 07 7:41 pm

I pronounce cache -

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<p>You'd think I'd get tired of posting this when this topic comes around every few months or so, but hey, apparently not.

Udderchaos · Post by **Udderchaos** » 17 May 07 8:35 pm

ZED! · Post by **ZED!** » 17 May 07 11:29 pm

I'd like to know where people go the idea cache pronounced 'cash' is American.

team unicycle · Post by **team unicycle** » 19 May 07 2:58 am

G'day! It's Emily from Team Uni.

My Dad says it is Kash and therefore it is right! End of story

Also, just in case that isn't evidence enough, The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary, 1988, states that Cache is pronounced 'kash' (the 'a' as in 'rat')....and that dictionary is concise after all...and Australian.

So for those who say that 'Kash' is American, then they are right, but it is also Australian. Don't know what language you 'kaysh sayers' are speaking.

Bunya · Post by **Bunya** » 19 May 07 12:00 pm

team unicycle wrote:G'day! It's Emily from Team Uni.

My Dad says it is Kash and therefore it is right! End of story

Also, just in case that isn't evidence enough, The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary, 1988, states that Cache is pronounced 'kash' (the 'a' as in 'rat')....and that dictionary is concise after all...and Australian.

So for those who say that 'Kash' is American, then they are right, but it is also Australian. Don't know what language you 'kaysh sayers' are speaking.

And so that's settled . . . well, for we sensible people, anyway.

So you can take your silly poll results and . . . .

Papa Bear_Left · Post by **Papa Bear_Left** » 19 May 07 12:38 pm

team unicycle wrote:Also, just in case that isn't evidence enough, The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary, 1988, states that Cache is pronounced 'kash' (the 'a' as in 'rat')....and that dictionary is concise after all...and Australian.

And the definition includes this sport/activity/thingy that we all do, does it? Or is it just one of the root words that went to make up "geocaching" which, like many examples, need not conform to the root's pronunciation?

More to the point, I think the Macquarie claims to be a descriptive dictionary, describing Australian English as she is spoke, not a prescriptive one (like Noah Webster's, may he burn in Hell for inflicting much of American "English" on us!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary ... escription
So, since 80% of poll respondents pronounce it "kayshing", then the dictionary needs to reflect that as the most common pronunciation.
That's what dictionaries do. (If you look up "gay" in an old dictionary, it will have no reference to homosexuality. Do you think that meaning changed in dictionaries first, or in the language?)

(No need to tell your Dad he's wrong, though. He's just not part of the group that this jargon evolved in!)

The Silver Snitch · Post by **The Silver Snitch** » 25 May 07 1:21 am

[burdair_3 wrote:
But I really don't think it is that important the important thing is that we are all actually enjoying ourselves.

Yep, I'm enjoying this

Navigull wrote:
Anyway the point of the sign on my camper-van looses its point if you say kayche-ing.

I found these links which support the kash

http://www.allwords.com/wavpage.php?wor ... =cache.wav ]

I guess I can see that some say one thing and some say another and I guess since we were introduced to it as cash and have a few computer people telling us its cash...I guess it is which ever.

Love the car bonnet and love the above link...says it all.

Yep Team Unicycle you convinced me!......

We'll keep on caching "cashing" I think.
The only right or wrongs really worth worrying about are WHERE we think it is! The cache "cash" that is.

!!

Dvixen · Post by **Dvixen** » 09 October 07 5:43 pm

Tonight someone told me saying 'cache' as 'kaysh' was a speech impediment, and accents don't exist.

She's so smrt, wish I'd known her back when I was doing my Linguistics degree!

Doobie doo3 · Post by **Doobie doo3** » 09 October 07 7:44 pm

Kaysh is definitely the way i say it

president & 1st lady · Post by **president & 1st lady** » 09 October 07 8:43 pm

We're rethinking this one. We have met cachers from England, US, Germany, Wales, Ireland, Romamia, Switzerland and Australia. The only people using caysh are the Australians, everyone else pronounces it as cash. The President has made the switch when he remembers, I'm a little harder to persuade.

1st lady

PS, bluedog, seems you right all along

Alansee · Post by **Alansee** » 09 October 07 9:21 pm

I don't believe it....all this time I've been saying Kaysh. I'm devastated, I don't believe it...how can I ever go to a Kayshing event again? woe is me!

I'll never read another topik again. Theyre too humiliating.

Bewilderbeest · Post by **Bewilderbeest** » 09 October 07 9:41 pm

We'll have to get the forum stars updated, so that people can choose whether they've found x number of 'cashes' or x 'kayshes', depending on which school they went to

big dazza · Post by **big dazza** » 10 October 07 10:58 pm

Here's my two bob's worth (in cash). I'm a "kaysher", but just because we are in the majority doesn't mean we are right.This is a global game and if the rest of the world are "kashers" maybe we should be too? (it would be hard to change though)
Cheers,big dazza.

theUMP · Post by **theUMP** » 11 October 07 12:23 am

I'm an Australian. I have an Australian accent. I see no reason to speak with an American accent just because there's at least ten times more people with an American accent than with ours.

I'm a "kaysher", I find, place and publish "geokayshes." I see no need to call them "cashes" just because there's more people who say it that way in other countries.

It's our dialect, we can pronounce words however we like, as long as we can be understood when we need to be.

ZED! · Post by **ZED!** » 11 October 07 3:44 am

Geocaching Australia

Pronunciation of caching!

Is it cashing or ka-ay- shing