Depends on how much Star Trek we've been watching lately.
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I pronounce it "data" of course.
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.
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.
Both. I am german and I speak a weird amalgamation of british and american english.
Same minus the german part
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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.
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 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.
Depends. Do you mean the Android Day-Ta? Or you mean the Information Unit Datah.
Came here to say, one is his name, the other is not.
Still calling it "The Chat Gippity" though
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.
No it's not... it's purely emphasis/stress via vowel reduction in English?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_and_vowel_reduction_in_English
It's both things, and subjected to wide variation:
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Stressed Unstressed Prevocalic /ði:/ /ði/, /ðɪ/, /ð/ Preconsonantal /ði:/, /ðʌ/ /ðə/
Source for those pronunciations, Wiktionary.
To complicate it further some varieties merge /ʌ/ and /ə/, or /ɪ/ and /ə/. And I'm not even taking into account varieties using a different consonant, /t θ d f v/.
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If were talking about a collection of information..."datta". If we're talking about the worlds' favorite android, his name sounds like "Day-tah".
Dahtum
Dayta
Data.
That pronunciation always drives me wild! it only makes sense to call it data.
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.
Data
Potato potato
data.... dad - d + ta
the other way doesn't bother me though... unlike "experiment".
it freaks me out when people throw a "spear" in that word
Day-tah
But I'm from the UK. Anything else would sound bizarre with my accent
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I sounded out both in my head and now I can't remember.
Both
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