American vs Australian pronunciation

[Moondog55]

Originally Posted by Key

So is it a cache of weapons or a cachet?

I am also not a fan of there, their, and they're - I only need 2 so pick either "there" or "their" and get rid of the other one. My vote is to get rid of "their". .

It is a 'cache' of weapons, and why would you want to get rid of a possessive? their as in they have
": They have their cache of weapons over there, in their house, and they're waiting until dark to move them :"

[Key]

Just laziness really. No good reason. And I said keep the possesive but get rid of one of the others. Er or did I? I mean keep the contraction.

[Ouroboros]

It's a cache of weapons. The word "Cachet" has changed in meaning over the centuries. The most prevalent meaning in English now is to show that something has a certain perceived status, as in: "The Bentley Continental GT has a certain social cachet"

Not that I have such a quality, sadly :-(

[Pit Hinder]

So get yourself cached in some cache and you might become a cachet when unearthed...just an idea of mine, you don´t have to - but give me the location if you do.

[cjcc67]

Originally Posted by Moondog55

Of course there is; it is called a "Credit card"

Insane giggle

I'm married to a Yankee, endless source of innocent amusement between us, as we both love language, and english is the only language where puns seem to work.

Te hehehe

[wintermute]

Originally Posted by Pit Hinder

Tony, you keep strange hours, being online at what for me is 13:30...and I should keep out of this, anyway - when I have a cold, Aussies think I´m South African

Not that strange that post was at 8:30ish PM my time, this one 9:55PM... I tend to post first thing in the morning (whilst eating breakfast) at lunch, and after dinner at night... so yes I guess it might seem like I am posting at all hours of the day and night

Tony.

[jamikl]

I'm a kiwi living in Melbourne, no jokes about sheep! I realise that modern kiwi
sounds horrible. My children sound quite different to me. The one that gets to me here is the number of TV and radio people who pronounce hour as ower, think tower.
jamikl

[Pano]

Originally Posted by Moondog55

... and english is the only language where puns seem to work.

??? Not sure what you mean there. You mean between you two?

French is a great language for puns, so many homonyms. And there are lots of puns between French and English. The Scandinavian languages too, IIRC. And the Polynesian languages are a pun bonanza, so few sounds, so many meanings.