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by GIN51E » 04 September 05 10:24 pm
I was just looking in the wiki to find a printout of what Geocaching is so i can save time trying to explain it to friends and work mates, yet i came across something interesting which is a little debate in my house.
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i found this-
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But caching (pronounced by most Australians as "cay-shing" - not the American "cash-ing") is about a lot more than plastic boxes
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I myself pronounce it as cash-ing and never heard of it pronounced as "cay-shing" and my mother says it like "cash-a" due to the fact she says it is a french word which it is if you look up the word "cache" in the dictionary.
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so i was just wondering how all of us say it.
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by Damo. » 04 September 05 10:33 pm
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by Horus » 04 September 05 10:35 pm
We did this one last year - refer to
this thread.
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by GIN51E » 04 September 05 10:37 pm
i can see why i didn't find anything with the title search
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by GIN51E » 04 September 05 10:41 pm
oh well, i'd say for caching i would say it as "cash-ing"
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and for the word cache i would say "cash-e"
(which i didn't put in the pole "DOH")
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although the word is actually "cash-a" being a french word
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by Papa Bear_Left » 04 September 05 10:45 pm
GIN51E wrote:oh well, i'd say for caching i would say it as "cash-ing"
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and for the word cache i would say "cash-e"
(which i didn't put in the pole "DOH")
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although the word is actually "cash-a" being a french word
It's "poll" not "pole" and it's an English word, not a French word.
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by GIN51E » 04 September 05 10:55 pm
Bear_Left wrote:GIN51E wrote:oh well, i'd say for caching i would say it as "cash-ing"
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and for the word cache i would say "cash-e"
(which i didn't put in the pole "DOH")
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although the word is actually "cash-a" being a french word
It's "poll" not "pole" and it's an English word, not a French word.
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From a dictionary
[French, from cacher, to hide, from Old French, to press, hide, from Vulgar Latin *cocticre, to store, pack together, frequentative of Latin coctre, to constrain, from coctus, past participle of cgere, to force. See cogent.]
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by GIN51E » 04 September 05 11:02 pm
after further research i've found it should be pronounced
kash
the a is pronounced in the same manner as it is in the word "Pat"
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by CraigRat » 04 September 05 11:08 pm
In short:
People pronounce it differently.
The majority of gc.com.au pronounce it cay-sh.
Some don't.
That is all.
PLEASE can we avoid the debate again... my head still hurts from last time!!
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by Horus » 04 September 05 11:10 pm
GIN51E wrote:after further research i've found it should be pronounced kash the a is pronounced in the same manner as it is in the word "Pat"
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Yes we know - we've done it already
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by CraigRat » 04 September 05 11:11 pm
Sorry if we all seem a bit terse gen51e, its just that this was a dead horse that was well and truly beaten before............
Reward for the best Dead Horse picture that is not actually a real dead horse!
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by Damo. » 05 September 05 12:15 am
GIN51E wrote:i can see why i didn't find anything with the title search
Fair call. I edited the title to make it able to be found in future. In the process the poll was lost but the final results are still there.
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by team unicycle » 10 September 05 11:39 am
Polling on this question just goes to show that in Geocaching, as in politics, the majority can be wrong