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I don't mind "on the ground" but will someone please inform the military that "cache" is pronounced like "cash" and not like "cachet"?
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reading the Onion again
Was it the tear in my eye that gave me away?
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will someone please inform the military that "cache" is pronounced like "cash" and not like "cachet"?
Amen! And that "niche" is "neesh", not "nitch".
I, too, hate the term "growing your business". And I have yet to get a satisfactory answer when I ask what the difference is between a problem and an issue. I don't have an issue with someone tapping the glass on my aquarium, I have a problem with it, and whoever does it is going to have a problem with me.
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And that "niche" is "neesh", not "nitch"
I suppose, if you're speaking French. It's an English word and we don' need no steenkeen French to tell us how to pernounce it.
And what's the difference between growing corn and growing a business?
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And what's the difference between growing corn and growing a business?
Less manure out on the farm.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Oh i see you are well acquainted with the ever so popular american style of management, MUSHROOM MANAGEMENT.
for those of you who are unfamiliar, its simple, you treat the workers like mushrooms
Keep them in the dark
Bury them in cow manure (a more vulgar slang term is use for manure)
and if they pop their heads up to see what is going on, LOP them off.
a very popular (with management) style.
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> It's an English word
What 'it' are you referring to, Fong? Since the loanword came from French the earliest English usage was definitely 'neesh' and therefore the 'English' word thus created used that pronunciation. Of course, if you're referring to the much later bastardised American mangling of the word... ;)
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Since the loanword came from French the earliest English usage was definitely 'neesh' and therefore the 'English' word thus created used that pronunciation. Of course, if you're referring to the much later bastardised American mangling of the word
Not sure what English pronunciation you're typing of. The OED, first edition, allows only /nItS/. The American-Heritage gives both /nItS/ and /niS/.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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What 'it' are you referring to, Fong?
It came from French, yes. But it's now English and we can pernounce it any way we dang well please, thank you very much. Y'all should talk about "proper" pernunciation with y'all's Don Quick-soat.
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good thing we're all in the same clique here...
formerly known as etaoin...
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