cache vs cachet :

cache or cachet

“Cache” comes from the French verb cacher, meaning “to hide,” and in English is pronounced exactly like the word “cash.” But reporters speaking of a cache (hidden hoard) of weapons or drugs often mispronounce it to sound like cachet—“ca-SHAY” —a word with a very different meaning: originally a seal affixed to a document, now a quality attributed to anything with authority or prestige. Rolex watches have cachet.

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Definitions
  cache
  • n  a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
  • n  a secret store of valuables or money
  • n  (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics
  • v  save up as for future use
  cachet
  • n  an indication of approved or superior status
  • n  a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal
  • n  a seal on a letter
News & Articles
  cache
  cachet
  • Frogs’ Legs May Be Out of Favor, but Not Flavor
    With the advent of nouvelle cuisine in the 1970s, frogs’ legs lost their cachet. But search hard enough, and you will find a lover of cuisses de grenouilles.
    June 10, 2013 - New York Times
  • E3 show not attracting video-game rising stars, WSJ reports
    The Electronic Entertainment Expo has served as the center of the video-game world, but E3, which begins this week in Los Angeles, is losing some cachet as it fails to attract the industry's new rising ...
    June 10, 2013 - Theflyonthewall.com via Yahoo! Finance
  • Frogs’ Legs May Be Out of Favor, but Not Flavor
    With the advent of nouvelle cuisine in the 1970s, frogs’ legs lost their cachet. But search hard enough, and you will find a lover of cuisses de grenouilles.
    June 10, 2013 - New York Times