“Cache”: what is it? How is it pronounced?
Cash- it’s a hidden trove of something.
I’ve always joked that the people in the city over from me don’t know how to say the name of their own city. You can always tell if someone is or was from that city based on how they say it. It sounds so rednecky. Ray-seen, instead of (the right way) Rah-seen.
zeGAT, zah-GAHT, same thing, I’ve never been good at writing pronunciations. But I think most people say it the other way.
Here you can here her say it both ways, not sure how to say it.
A cache of cash?
I left out a question–how does cache pertain to computers?
That’s right. You can think they’re dumb for constructing a name a certain way. But you are still wrong if you say it differently.
But the French word has an accent on the E which would make it be pronounced For-TAY. “Fort” is the Anglicization.
There’s a church in south Baltimore - St. Rose of Lima - pronounced like the bean. OK, whatever.
I get stabby when people pronounce the t in often. How do they say soften?
And the French word *forte *does not have an accent, and it means strong.
The word defense is supposed to be pronounced de-FENCE, but because of the wonder of sports and our love of chanting, we’ve basically turned that into DE-fence
I always hear people say “lingerie” with the last syllable sounding like “ray” and nobody bothers to correct it. Seems standard now, at least in the US.
Could you show evidence for that? Because everything I can find shows no accent.
As far as I can see, the French word is either Fort (pronounced “fore”) or Forte (pronounced “fort”).
I don’t care how much the English language is evolving, I refuse to say Feb-yoo-ary.
I had a boss who said “Febby-airy.”
Nope. The correct pronunciation is the one that the people whom you’re speaking to are familiar with.
Julius Caesar probably pronounced his name like Yooleeoos Kighsahr. Do you pronounce it that way?
This one drives me crazy.
It’s pronounced Lahyphena.
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Well, like with the non-computer definition, a cache is a place to store something. The context you likely run into it is with web browsers that store certain files (usually temporarily) from websites in order to make them load faster the next time you visit them.
That’s the one I was going to mention.
A similar thing happened with Hector Boyardee. Born Ettore Boiardi, he ‘sold his products under the brand name “Chef Boy-Ar-Dee” so that his American customers could pronounce his name properly.’
As for the OP, one name that grates on my nerves as someone who took a lot of German in school and as a former owner of the marque, is Porsche. The ‘e’ is pronounced.
My last name is French. I’ve given up on the correct pronunciation, and just go with pronouncing it the way it looks. That way there is a chance that people may be able to spell it right.
It always amazes me though, when I order a script at Rite Aid, and I get the automated call telling me it’s ready, the computerized voice always pronounces it correctly.
How do you pronounce it? I would’a sworn we pronounced the first syllable like bimbo as in girl, but maybe I just can’t hear the difference.
There’s quite a few Spanish lastnames which are more likely to be spelled with a B if in non-Spanish-speaking countries, with a V in Spanish-speaking ones. Makes sense by the rule of “I just want people to say it right” or by that of people not asking “how do you spell that?” In most Spanish dialects, the two letters correspond to the /b/ sound.
Thanks, Rigamarole, I owe you one.
When did this get given up on? I’ve never in my life heard anyone say “that’s not my fort” instead of “that’s not my fortay.” Not ever.