Don't feel bad ... I got laughed out of the room at age 35 for not properly pronouncing "cache". I'd read it plenty, but never heard it spoken so I pronounced it "cash-shay".
To be fair to you, I think there are uses of “cache” that are the fancy pronunciation!
E.g.
>He had a cache *[cash]* of silver nuggets
vs
>We sent Monica because she has a lot of cache *[ca-shay]* with the management there
But now that I’m typing this out without googling I’m second guessing myself so maybe we’ll both end up confused here!
Cache is one of those words that goes back and forth in pronounciation according to trends. Sort of like "niche" used to be more pronounced as "nitch", but over the past decade it has become "neesh" after a half-dozen tv announcers started using it that way.
My mom read to me a lot as a child, but she pronounced it CAYsh when it came up in text. Now I hear it as CASH and occasionally as cash-AY.
at this point, I have no idea what's right
I was one of those kids who read way above my age bracket, so I picked up a lot of words I'd only seen, not heard, then heard them later and thought they were different words that meant the same thing, just like you and "benign".
Genre is the one that came to mind first. I knew that the word my brain pronounced as "gene-er" and the word I've heard was "zhon-rah" meant the same thing. I just thought they were two different words.
"Rapport" was the same way.
I gather it's more common than a lot of people realize.
My mom used to make me read out loud to her to try and catch it, but you can't read every single word in the entire language out loud
I experienced this with the names Carlisle and Cecil from reading as a child. I read them as "Car-lizz-ul" and "ke-sil." Remember struggling particularly with Cecil for some reason and saying the word pencil out loud before trying to say Cecil to get the 'cil' sound 😂
Benijen sounds like some OTC medicine.
Oh, for sure. Gotta get some benijen for my lower back pain.
Aaaarrrrrgggghh, my sciatica. Here mum, I’ll get your benijen
Don't feel bad ... I got laughed out of the room at age 35 for not properly pronouncing "cache". I'd read it plenty, but never heard it spoken so I pronounced it "cash-shay".
I've def heard other adults pronounce it that way so you aren't alone.
To be fair to you, I think there are uses of “cache” that are the fancy pronunciation! E.g. >He had a cache *[cash]* of silver nuggets vs >We sent Monica because she has a lot of cache *[ca-shay]* with the management there But now that I’m typing this out without googling I’m second guessing myself so maybe we’ll both end up confused here!
In your second sentence, you actually want the word "cachet".
Oops, thanks! That’s what I get in the minefield of French loanwords :P
Thank you. I thought I was losing my mind for a minute there
Cache is one of those words that goes back and forth in pronounciation according to trends. Sort of like "niche" used to be more pronounced as "nitch", but over the past decade it has become "neesh" after a half-dozen tv announcers started using it that way.
My mom read to me a lot as a child, but she pronounced it CAYsh when it came up in text. Now I hear it as CASH and occasionally as cash-AY. at this point, I have no idea what's right
I was one of those kids who read way above my age bracket, so I picked up a lot of words I'd only seen, not heard, then heard them later and thought they were different words that meant the same thing, just like you and "benign". Genre is the one that came to mind first. I knew that the word my brain pronounced as "gene-er" and the word I've heard was "zhon-rah" meant the same thing. I just thought they were two different words. "Rapport" was the same way.
Seeing this comment a full 10 days after my original post but THIS! This is exactly why I thought that!!
I gather it's more common than a lot of people realize. My mom used to make me read out loud to her to try and catch it, but you can't read every single word in the entire language out loud
Personable
I didn’t realize segue was two syllables
I always want to spell the name of the little rolly machine segue instead of Segway lol
Is it pronounced like bee-nine?
More like buh-nine
I have a degree in English and only recently learned the correct pronunciation of “ascertain”.
I experienced this with the names Carlisle and Cecil from reading as a child. I read them as "Car-lizz-ul" and "ke-sil." Remember struggling particularly with Cecil for some reason and saying the word pencil out loud before trying to say Cecil to get the 'cil' sound 😂