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Benedict Arnold

How do you pronounce data? Data or Data?

Posted - April 2, 2019
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  • It is supposed to be pronounced as day-ta.  That's the original pronunciation when it was created as a plural from datum.  Most people outside of the geek community say data like they are saying dad though.

    Can't fault it,  I still refuse to pronounce GIF as JIF.
      April 2, 2019 7:58 AM MDT
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  • Day-Ta sounds to fancy... like saying vase instead of vase. 
      April 2, 2019 8:03 AM MDT
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  • I kinda agree. It has a pompous ring to it.
      April 2, 2019 8:05 AM MDT
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  • 34251
    DAY-ta like the android on Star Trek the Next Gen. 
      April 2, 2019 8:00 AM MDT
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  • Fancy and high tec :)
      April 2, 2019 8:04 AM MDT
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  • 34251
    UK people probably say dah-ta so people just started copying thinking that is sounded fancy.  
      April 2, 2019 8:09 AM MDT
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  • I say it dah-ta. 
      April 2, 2019 8:10 AM MDT
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  • There is an argument by some to use both.
      April 2, 2019 8:07 AM MDT
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  • 34251
    Prob depends on where you live. US/UK/etc.
      April 2, 2019 8:10 AM MDT
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  • Nah, something about contexts.
      April 2, 2019 8:12 AM MDT
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  • 469
    It is pronounced data.  Not data, but data!
      April 2, 2019 8:13 AM MDT
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  • Agreed ;)
      April 2, 2019 8:17 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    Data. 
      April 2, 2019 8:27 AM MDT
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  • Same:)
      April 2, 2019 8:30 AM MDT
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  • 44602
    The dictionary says either is correct. How do you pronounce either?
      April 2, 2019 9:21 AM MDT
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  • I-ther. But I pronounce neither like Knee-ther. Weird. 
      April 2, 2019 9:29 AM MDT
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  • 469
    It is pronounced either.  Not either, but either!  Looking at this word makes me crazy.
    This post was edited by Natz at April 2, 2019 9:45 AM MDT
      April 2, 2019 9:43 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    I'm from Chicago.  Daaaata.

    They have (we have a peculiar way of enunciating our "a" it sounds nasal. 

    I cannot hear it, of course.
      April 2, 2019 9:23 AM MDT
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  • I can’t suss out what you mean. I keep thinking like  how someone from Boston would say daaA-ta. But I know that’s not right. 
      April 2, 2019 9:30 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    I know.  I don't have that Bostonian accent.  GOD FORBID.   But people ask me all the time: WHERE ARE YOU FROM?  So I know I don't sound exactly the same as the Arizona people.  Except all the people from Chicago that are down here.

    It is a nasal twang.  You need to hear it spoken.  Just turn on a Chicago news station or something.  
      April 2, 2019 9:36 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Oh I got it.  The A is like the sound of a in apple.  

    Apple  
      April 2, 2019 9:37 AM MDT
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  • I pronounce it "data", like a normal person. ;)
      April 2, 2019 10:22 AM MDT
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  • Oh, I pronounce it data, so I’m not normal ;)
      April 2, 2019 11:09 AM MDT
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