On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> wrote:
> IMO it's a typo. The correct spelling is "cacheable", so it should be
> corrected where you reported and also in the other two places.
+1
I think the incorrect spelling fits the usual pattern (movable,
valuable, believable, ... with moveable accepted but dying), and it's
definitely "caching" without the -e-, so it's probably a tempting
mistake to make, but apparently we're making new words out of bits of
French with the C preprocessor ## operator and ignoring all that. I
bet it's "cachable" en français though. My Oxford Concise lists only
the -e- form, so you have my vote. The online Merriam-Webster (I
think that's the main reference for US spelling?) doesn't list either
and suggests I might be looking for cashable.
Now can anyone explain why database people write "sargable[1]", but
universally pronounce it as "sargeable"? That shows the reason to
keep an e around before an a, in our chaotic spelling system, if you
can call it a system :-)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargable
