[Ads-l] cache-cachet confusible

[Ben Zimmer]

"Cache"/"cachet" shows up in Paul Brians' "Common Errors of English Usage."

https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/31/cache-cachet/

The pair is also in "100 Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up or Mangles" from
American Heritage, as noted by Heidi Stevens in a 2011 Chicago Tribune
column:

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-07-06/features/ct-
tribu-words-work-cache-20110706_1_cache-american-heritage-dictionaries-loot

Link to cached (not cacheted) version if that doesn't work:
https://goo.gl/q8T8Er

And I see some discussion on this here list in 2011 and 2013.


On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Baron, Dennis E <debaron at illinois.edu>
wrote:

> Anyone writing about the cache - cachet confusible? Usu. cache for cachet,
> not so much the other way, if at all. I’m hearing/seeing it more and more
> from educated, sophisticated academic writers and speakers, even those who
> have some French, but don’t recall seeing usage notes discussing this
> confusion. Merriam-Webster has a brief “what’s the difference between two
> words from the same root” note online, search “cache for cachet,” but does
> not specifically mark them as a confusible. Is this too rarefied to have
> warranted attention? Or is it a gaffe that’s becoming entrenched, like
> disinterested?
>
>

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