OK, I’ve learned to live with the fact that nobody understands why “try to” is more correct than “try and”, or why “hopefully” is a cheat for when you want to say “I hope”. I’ve made my peace, as ’twere.<\/p>\n
But, that doesn’t stop the hundreds of minor errors that I see every day from driving me nuts. Not the obvious typos, but rather the systemic errors that indicate an almost viral transmission or misinformation.<\/p>\n
And today I finally reached the tipping point with one example that I have, for some reason, been seeing everywhere lately: people who don’t know the difference between cache and cachet. Or, Fowler<\/a> help us, who think caché–the French word for “hidden”–is the proper spelling of “cachet”. <\/p>\n Look, here’s the scoop:<\/p>\n Main Entry:\tcache<\/b> 1 a<\/b> :<\/b> a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements b<\/b> :<\/b> a secure place of storage Main Entry:\tca\u00b7chet<\/b> Let’s try to get that right next time, OK? I’m so much easier to get along with when you aren’t pushing my pedantry buttons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OK, I’ve learned to live with the fact that nobody understands why “try to” is more correct than “try and”, or why “hopefully” is a cheat for when you want to say “I hope”. I’ve made my peace, as ’twere. But, that doesn’t stop the hundreds of minor errors that I see every day from driving me nuts. Not the… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-explodes","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-d0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPronunciation:\t'kash<\/tt>
\nFunction:\tnoun<\/i>
\nEtymology:\tFrench, from cacher<\/i> to press, hide, from Vulgar Latin *coacticare<\/i> to press together, from Latin coactare<\/i> to compel, frequentative of cogere<\/i> to compel — more at COGENT<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n
2<\/b> :<\/b> something hidden or stored in a cache
3<\/b> :<\/b> a computer memory with very short access time used for storage of frequently or recently used instructions or data — called also cache memory<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nPronunciation:\tka-'shA<\/tt>
\nFunction:\tnoun<\/i>
\nEtymology:\tFrench, from cacher<\/i>
\n1 a<\/b> :<\/b> a seal used especially as a mark of official approval b<\/b> :<\/b> an indication of approval carrying great prestige
2 a<\/b> :<\/b> a characteristic feature or quality conferring prestige b<\/b> : PRESTIGE<\/font><\/a><\/b> <being rich…doesn’t have the cachet<\/i> it used to — Truman Capote>
3<\/b> :<\/b> a medicinal preparation for swallowing consisting of a case usually of rice-flour paste enclosing a medicine
4 a<\/b> :<\/b> a design or inscription on an envelope to commemorate a postal or philatelic event b<\/b> :<\/b> an advertisement forming part of a postage meter impression c<\/b> :<\/b> a motto or slogan included in a postal cancellation<\/p><\/blockquote>\n