Depends on how much Star Trek we've been watching lately.
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Pulaski?
One is my name. The other is not.
I mean the man told us how he prefers it, I don't understand why this is so hard for people
Edit: typo
I pronounce it "data" of course.
The only proper way to pronounce data is the way Captain Jean Luc Picard pronounces it.
Both, randomly switching between them
Same, and when I catch myself doing that, I wonder why I do it, then move on with life and do it again later.
Yes
Both. I feel like one of them always tends to fit the conversation better than the other, but which one that is seems to be totally random.
Same with Caribbean. Royal Caribbean and Pirates of the Caribbean both sound wrong if you use the alternate pronunciation.
As an American and originally from the mid-west, I pronounce it "day-ta".
Dahtum
Dayta
Dah-ta in a day-tabase.
precisely.
Yes.
Both. I am german and I speak a weird amalgamation of british and american english.
Same minus the german part
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Day-ter
Annoyingly I go back and forth because whichever pronunciation I’m on sounds worse than when I hear it the other way.
I recently caught myself using both pronunciations in the same sentence.
Da-tah.
It depends on how many ay's and ah's are in my sentence. My mouth seems to natural conform to whatever has more as I speak at 9 million words per minute.
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I use both. One feels more singular while the other feels more plural though I can't tell you which when you ask me. We have to sneak up on it together.
I have the same issue with "Thuh" and "Thee" for "The."
"The" does have two pronunciations depending on if the word after it starts with a vovel sound or not. It's "Thuh" for consonants and "Thee" for vowels.
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I flip flop back and forth, I'm not totally sure if there's a specific rhyme or reason to my choices, it may just come down to a subjective feeling about which I think sounds better in the sentence.
My wife is a dayta analyst, and she analyzes dahta.
Data.
That pronunciation always drives me wild! it only makes sense to call it data.
Depends. Do you mean the Android Day-Ta? Or you mean the Information Unit Datah.
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If it’s well structured then day ta. If it’s more raw then dah ta.
Idk why, why the second way sounds more raw.
If were talking about a collection of information..."datta". If we're talking about the worlds' favorite android, his name sounds like "Day-tah".
The latter, just to make everyone else in my organization question themselves. Whether it is correct or not is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is the seed of uncertainty that I plant every day.
I feel like this thread is missing Australians and Kiwis saying that it's neither /ˈdeɪtə/ nor /ˈdætə/ but actually /ˈdɐːtə/. One of the Australian post docs in the group in which I did my thesis used that last one.
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