# How do YOU pronounce the word "cache"

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**Created:** [October 4, 2013, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-the-word-cache/670383 "2013-10-04T18:48:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2013, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-the-word-cache/670383/61 "2013-10-06T13:54:47Z")

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> [@Martini\_Enfield](#):
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> I haven’t come across that one before, since I’ve only ever heard “cot” pronoucned as, well, “cot” and “caught” as something like “cort”.

The thing is, in rhotic English accents (like general American English), the “cort” pronunciation doesn’t make much sense, as we pronounce the “r.” Same with “car-sill.” We would say that as “car” + “sill,” with the “r” enunciated on the “car.” It was driving me nuts years ago when I was reading an English-Hunagrian dictionary/phrasebook as it was telling me the sound “ö” can be approximated as “er,” so a word like “öt” (“five”) was written as “ERT” and “köszönöm” was “KER-ser-nerm,” and it sounded nothing like those to my ears. It was only years later that I figured it out: it was written/published in the UK. When I said it in a British accent in my head, then it sounded like a reasonable approximation.

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**Post date:** [October 11, 2013, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-the-word-cache/670383/62 "2013-10-11T12:19:46Z")

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> That would be the French pronunciation of the word, as in the [Apache dance.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_(dance)) I see you live in Sweden, so perhaps they have picked up the French pronunciation.

I doubt it. It is more likely that they see it ends the same as “cache” and so assume that it is pronounced the same way.

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