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Pronouncing the word "cache" as "cash-eh"
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I'm sorry, you don't get to maul the pronunciation of loan words and then correct people when they use the correct pronunciation. The word comes from the french cache/casher which is pronounced exactly cash-eh. Where do you think the -e comes from?
cacher does, but cache as in "cache-toi !" (go hide!) and "je me cache" (I'm hiding) are pronounced "cash".
Besides, "correct" pronunciation in a different language is pretty meaningless. The word may have come from French but we're speaking English, not French.
Also, it might not be a loan word so much as a legacy-of-foreigners-taking-over word (c.f. the Normand invasion of Britain), which doesn't tend to help the language's users care about respecting the "original" pronunciation. I'm not certain when exactly cachet entered English.