Timeline for What is a “political caché”?
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| Feb 19, 2016 at 23:53 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @Sakatox: The meaning is pretty clear. The French word caché means hidden, while the French word cachet means cachet. "Political hidden" doesn't make any sense. And the French word cache is pronounced differently. | |
| Feb 19, 2016 at 21:49 | comment | added | Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_ | This particularly irksome when talking to people about IT issues: they often confuse the pronunciation of the 2. | |
| Feb 19, 2016 at 21:31 | comment | added | Grammar Addict | @Sakatox No, it was in the context of an American politics, talking about one of the personages in the upcoming elections. But I still wonder what would be a percentage of native speakers who would not understand this word. | |
| Feb 19, 2016 at 21:21 | comment | added | Sakatox | Without the entirety of the context of the speech/talk, you cannot jump to the conclusion that it's cachet/caché in the cachet sense. It very well could be a very French person talking English and saying the French cache word instead. | |
| Feb 19, 2016 at 21:10 | comment | added | Marthaª | @GrammarAddict: it's entirely possible (probable, even) that you're not the first to make this mistake, hence the search result. (Which is one of the many reasons why Google Is Not General Reference.) | |
| Feb 19, 2016 at 21:08 | comment | added | Brian Donovan | Pronunciation of fillet goes both ways! | |
| Feb 19, 2016 at 21:00 | comment | added | Jeremy | @GrammarAddict Words with french origin are sometimes pronounced that way, such as fillet. | |
| Feb 19, 2016 at 20:57 | comment | added | Grammar Addict | I see, I didn't know this word. And pronunciation seems non-standard. What confused me is that one of the search results actually has caché with an accent. Thanks! | |
| Feb 19, 2016 at 20:54 | history | answered | Jeremy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |