I pronounce it ta da~! , jazz hands included
Yes. I'm British.
Exactly what I was gonna say.
I pronounce it data. Guess I thought everyone did.
Me too. Out of interest do you pronounce it 'gif' as well?
Same
I know it's me just being a particular asshole, but I really don't like the pronunciation data... it's honestly tiresome, problematic, and outdated. It's pronounced DATA.
American. Day-duh.
Data: First, the two A's/vowels:
The first of two A's gets the "Aey" sound, the second gets the "Ah" sound.
Then, because I'm from California, the ah becomes uh.
Then, similarly, the "tuh" has a hard T at the beginning. But again because California/USA, the T becomes a D (British: butter ("buttah", hard t's), usa: budder(soft t's or d's))
Thus: day-duh.
I only say data the way it's said in Star Trek. Same for database.
I vacillate between the two. Really depends on the words surrounding “data”.
I alternate between the two pronunciations depending on whatever I vibe with at the time, much like with how I spell colour/color
A local radio DJ said once that if he's feeling fancy he says "Da Ta" like "ta-da!" Cracked me up way more that it should have.
I use them interchangeably 🙈
It is pronounced /ˈdætə/.
Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive.
For his name I say data but when talking about data I say data but when I say database I say data and when I watch 1986’s Willow with Warwick Davis I say data
What does Willow (1986) have to do with data? Isn't it, like, a sword-and-sorcery fantasy movie?
Oh I bet there's a character with a name that sounds like the word "data".
You should probably watch willow. It’s not terrible. Val kilmer with a sword.
There's a kid who calls her father dada (dadda?...sp?) throughout the movie
Oh same
Yes, i watched TNG before (and during) i learned English
How else are you supposed to pronounce it?
Brits pronounce it day-ta, Americans, Canadians and Australians pronounce it dah-ta. Data pronounces it Day-ta.
American here, I can't speak for Canada, but I don't think I've ever heard any Americans in the US in real conversations say it differently than it is in Star Trek.
I've lived in nearly every major region of the US, so if there's a place where they still pronounce it like "dah-ta" it must be a very small regional thing. Normal working class people having actual conversions everywhere I've ever been say "day-ta".
I've read before that Patrick Stewart is the reason for that changing, but I don't know if that's true. Seems like an outsized influence for one guy to have on culture, but maybe!
Dat a
As more data becomes available
Then we can start doing more with it
And as we do more with it
That that creates more data
I pronounce it the correct way: dah-tah
That is incorrect
how do you pronounce database?
Dah-tah-bah-seh
I don’t know, because I have no idea how the Star Trek character says it…
Doita?
My approach: A single data point is "dah-ta" Some quantity of data is "day-ta"
For example: "I back up my game's save dah-ta in case my hard drive's day-ta gets corrupted"
Depends on the language I’m speaking, but I usually say da-ta, because data is a Portuguese word for date, and when I switch to English and keep the Portuguese pronunciation (and sometimes I even mix up both words but that’s another story)
D@-a
Data, I think because of digimon
