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[taleya.livejournal.com]

Pop Quiz!

So, how do you pronounce it? Caysh or cash?

Comments

[taleya.livejournal.com]

ahahha my other half only did that once

I just about laughed him the fuck out of the house.

[princess-kessie.livejournal.com]

Me personally? Caysh. Because that's the way I was taught at school (Australia). I see via Google that most dictionaries say it should be pronounced cash.

The voice-over guy on one of the ads on tv here at the moment? Cash-ay. Peeves me no end.

[taleya.livejournal.com]

I tend to say Caysh as well (fellow Aussie) Most of the indians at work say "Cash" though.

[spiker-uk.livejournal.com]

Cash. But is that a British English thing?

[snyperwolf.livejournal.com]

No, it's cash in the US too.

[tullamoredew.livejournal.com]

Cash, just like you say "nish" to name a niche.

[taleya.livejournal.com]

neesh!

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Cash, as god intended. ;)

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Catch.

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

I pronounce it "Da Tingy".

*raises blast shield*

No, seriously? Cash is the standard in the USA, from what I've been able to tell.

[donnaidh-sidhe.livejournal.com]

DE TING

[spooforbrains.livejournal.com]

What about "router"?

[princess-kessie.livejournal.com]

Row-ter. Despite the fact that when we drive a route here in Australia, we drive a root.

Yeah, we're weird down here ;P

[jennlee2.livejournal.com]

Cash - if I'm talking about a hidden supply of something, or stuff in computer memory. Ca-shay if I'm talking about the programming language formerly known as MUMPS (it even has the accent mark - Caché).

Never caysh. I've never even heard that pronunciation.

[jecook]

GAH! WE DO NOT SPEAK OF THE HORROR KNOWN AS MUMPS IN PUBLIC!

[altorogue.livejournal.com]

Caysh. And I'm American, NEVER heard it pronounced cash. 'Cause that's the stuff you spend. :D

[anivair.livejournal.com]

American. I say cash. I guess now you've heard it. I 'm not sure which one of us is right.

[whizzy.livejournal.com]

I'm American and I've never heard it caysh.

Also, see here (http://languor.us/pronunciation-cache).

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

Another American. Another vote for "cash" and yet another for "never heard it pronounced 'caysh'."

[pne.livejournal.com]

Ditto for "never heard it pronounced 'caysh'". (Not American, though.)

[digitalraven]

Cash. The old joke used to be that you could glue a d6 to an old Celeron and balance a fifty-pence piece on top of that, so that the chip would have some on-die cache. If it were pronounced otherwise, the joke wouldn't work and I'd be sad.

I'm willing to pronounce it any way someone wants, however. It's one of those wonderful words that I've been banned from saying in the office, along with "plinth". Apparently, I have too much fun saying it. The David Niven impersonation doesn't help.

[historychick49.livejournal.com]

American here. I say cash, and that's how I hear it in Appalachia, too.

Also rowter, and both root and rowt for route, depending on how it slips out. (Rowt seems to be the norm here in West By God Virginia, but apparently I don't have much of an identifiable accent.)

[jokergirl.livejournal.com]

Rowt seems to be the Cisco way of pronouncing it. I said Root before, but after taking the class I am ambiguous as well.

;)

[pikaporeon.livejournal.com]

Cash

Caysh just.. seems wrong to me

>Canadian

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

American here - New England upbringing, to be precise about it. I say "cash". My husband, who was raised in Georgia, says "caysh". We've been having this discussion for literally *years* :D

[jokergirl.livejournal.com]

The French way. [kʌʃ].

;)

[gholam.livejournal.com]

כשה?

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

American here, born, raise and still in Pennsylvania and I've grown up with it pronounced "cash" though I've become accustom to hearing "caysh" as well thanks to some of my international colleagues. Occasionally a fellow American will also pronounce it "caysh" but I'm not sure if it's just a regional thing.

[sdaemon.livejournal.com]

american, and I say "cash", though I've heard enough people pronounce it "caysh" that I don't think twice about it.

Even a few weirdos who say "ca-shay". But that's just wrong.

[nightsinger.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering if the caysh/cash differences in the US might be regionalised.

I'm from Seattle and say "cash".

(Also, router is not "rooter" but something like "rah-oot-er". Spelling it "row-ter" as I've seen makes me think of "row, row, row your boat", and if anyone is really saying that kind of row-ter, I'd be surprised.)

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

A Canadian vote here for cash, as in money or Johnny.

[wbyonder.livejournal.com]

Ca$he'

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

I say cash because I learned the word in French class first.

Same reason I don't say bay-nil for "banal." I don't care if I sound silly :)

[taleya.livejournal.com]

...Who the fuck pronounces banal as "bay-nil"??

[notsarahnz.livejournal.com]

caysh, as does everyone else I can think of here in New Zealand.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Yep.

[superbus.livejournal.com]

Cash as in money over here. Also Canadian.