You say Tomato, I say ..... pronunciation of the word cache
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Postman Pat
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You are not the only one as I started Caching in an area with no one else it was not till I went to an event that I was Corrected AND I am still trying to get it righthomedg wrote:I see this is an old thread but after meeting and breaking bread with some fellow "Cashers" for the first time today, I was quite shocked to hear them pronouncing it as "Cayshe".
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ian-and-penny
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Possibly, but that's not the word we are debating.riblit wrote:Isn't that the same publication that pronounces solder as "sodder"?ian-and-penny wrote:It's still "Cash"ian-and-penny wrote:It's "Cash"
see http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=CACHE
the pronunciation key is quite explicit.
(I may be in the minority with one vote so far
but I'm correct
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riblit
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Sorry, I didn't realise evidence of other silent letters in American wasn't allowedian-and-penny wrote:Possibly, but that's not the word we are debating.riblit wrote:Isn't that the same publication that pronounces solder as "sodder"?ian-and-penny wrote:It's still "Cash"ian-and-penny wrote:It's "Cash"
see http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=CACHE
the pronunciation key is quite explicit.
(I may be in the minority with one vote so far
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Map Monkey
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) If someone wants to say cache, then i say let them....as i will just stick with cache thanks. 
I've just read back through this whole thread and, while my eyes did glaze over at times, I couldn't find anywhere the following point was made.
Geocaching started in the US.
This sport/hobby/pastime is dominated by the rules set by gc.com.
On gc.com they have: "Getting Started with Geocaching (pronounced "geocashing")"
Now I am a (sometimes vehement) opponent of the ever-increasing infiltration of Australian culture by American spelling and pronunciation (is there is any young singer who sounds like an Aussie?)
But the point is that we are using a word for which the pronunciation is provided by the body "controlling" geocaching.
Say caysh when referring to a gca placement if you like.
But a cache recorded on gc.com is a "cash".
Geocaching started in the US.
This sport/hobby/pastime is dominated by the rules set by gc.com.
On gc.com they have: "Getting Started with Geocaching (pronounced "geocashing")"
Now I am a (sometimes vehement) opponent of the ever-increasing infiltration of Australian culture by American spelling and pronunciation (is there is any young singer who sounds like an Aussie?)
But the point is that we are using a word for which the pronunciation is provided by the body "controlling" geocaching.
Say caysh when referring to a gca placement if you like.
But a cache recorded on gc.com is a "cash".
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I still reckon this isn't the point, but if I have to play the game:CraigRat wrote:How do you pronounce Ache?homedg wrote:How would you pronounce these words?
Moustache
Penache
Grenache
Hmmm.. Geo-cake-ing.....
yet another perumtation for the mix......
Edit: deleted geographical spelling error before anyone spotted it.
Phew!
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CraigRat
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I can say that as a developer here, I am proud to be assosciated with the Australian Home of Geocayshing...G'day , bewdy, crikey, struth etc .Bunya wrote:Say caysh when referring to a gca placement if you like.
Only people I know who do the cash pronunciation are odd Swedish/American/Parisian hybrid folk, I know more cachers who say Cashay than Cash
I love this debate, I didn't realise it was that time of year already......
Off Topic: Whatever happened to the use of the word 'Dag'??? It seems to have vanished...
It's fun, innit?CraigRat wrote: I love this debate, I didn't realise it was that time of year already......
Off Topic: Whatever happened to the use of the word 'Dag'??? It seems to have vanished...
DAG? Do you mean this?
"Directed acyclic graph.
Graphs are representations with nodes and arcs (or links). DAGs are often drawn in terms of circles and arrows where the circles represent nodes and the arrows represent arcs. The term "directed" means that each link has a direction, suggested pictorially by the arrowhead from one node to another. Acyclic means that there are no loops in the graph, that is, a path of arcs that start at one node and find their way back again."
Sounds like my usual path to a cash, sorry caysh, cashay, ....
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Team Wibble
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And here I was thinking a dag was a bit of poo on a sheep's bum. You learn something every day!Bunya wrote:It's fun, innit?CraigRat wrote: I love this debate, I didn't realise it was that time of year already......
Off Topic: Whatever happened to the use of the word 'Dag'??? It seems to have vanished...
DAG? Do you mean this?
"Directed acyclic graph.
Graphs are representations with nodes and arcs (or links). DAGs are often drawn in terms of circles and arrows where the circles represent nodes and the arrows represent arcs. The term "directed" means that each link has a direction, suggested pictorially by the arrowhead from one node to another. Acyclic means that there are no loops in the graph, that is, a path of arcs that start at one node and find their way back again."
Sounds like my usual path to a cash, sorry caysh, cashay, ....
In regards to the caysh/cash point - practically every Australian I've ever met pronounces cache "caysh", whether they're referring to geocaching or caches in general (such as a computer's cache... etc). I just thought that was how Australian's pronounced the word.
However, Mr Wibble's mum pronounces it geo-cashing, despite never hearing anyone apart from us pronounce the word.
And strangely enough, she's originally from America....
