Do you pronounce "Data" as "Day-ta" or "Dah-ta"?

Depends on how much Star Trek we've been watching lately.

Day-ta

Like this

I pronounce it "data" of course.

Both, randomly switching between them

Yes.

Dah-ta in a day-tabase.

Annoyingly I go back and forth because whichever pronunciation I’m on sounds worse than when I hear it the other way.

Dat-uh is information, Day-tuh is a Star Trek character.

Both. I am german and I speak a weird amalgamation of british and american english.

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.

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.

Day-tah

And it's uncountable.

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.

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."

Day-tay.

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.

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

Day-tah

But I'm from the UK. Anything else would sound bizarre with my accent

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

Both

Yes

I sounded out both in my head and now I can't remember.

The only proper way to pronounce data is the way Captain Jean Luc Picard pronounces it.

Sometimes day-ta, but more often da-tuh, with the first a being pronounced like acrobat, the second as a schwa.

I had a HS science teachers in the early 90s who was very insistent that, "day-ta is a name, dah-ta is information." And between Star Trek and The Goonies, that made sense to me.

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.

It's regional. I grew up in Australia, where it's pronounced as it is in the US: dah-tah. But I now live in the UK, where it's pronounced day-tah.

The same is true of "router", the network device (but not the woodworking tool): rau-tah vs roo-ter.

Working in IT made it a ballache for a while until I remembered to always change my pronunciation for them. 🙄

Almost exclusively day-ta.

I'm a day-ta scientist who grabs raw day-ta from a tay-ta warehouse (using an interface that makes it look like a day-ta base) and manipulates it inside day-ta frames in order to do day-ta analysis. I also design day-ta analytics schemas.

Sometimes, though rarely, that day-ta warehouse holds rah dah-ta, though, and I can't tell you how it got there or why.

It doesn’t matter. Pronounce it either way because it’s acceptable.

Language is fluid and communication is about understanding the intent of what you’re saying. If someone doesn’t know what you mean by pronouncing it either way, then they are being obtuse and need a quick punch in the dongle.

English: /'dɑ:tə/ ['dɑ:tʰə]~['dɑ:ʔə]. The first "a" is the same as in "father".

Italian: /'da.ta/ ['dä:ta]. There's only way to read the word anyway.

Portuguese: I don't use it. There's a native equivalent, "dados" /'da.dos/ ['dä.dos] (dado = a piece of data).

Day-tah.

I hear it pronounced dah-tah more by Brits than Americans

dətə

"Dah-ta"

Source: Kiwi accent

I pronounce it both ways. This sometimes strikes people as odd, but I will use both American and British spellings, units of measurement, and pronunciations depending on what I vibe with at the time.

This is entirely different when I'm speaking in Spanish though, as I'll always use Mexican Spanish pronunciations.

I pronounce it the correct way.

IMO The sentence you enter dahta into a daytabase is correct to me. Dahta is like unworked mana (pronounced mahna) whereas manah is what you have done or are doing with it and Tomaytos are fresh, tomahtos are what you have done with them.

People who say potahto should be flogged in the village square however... damn heathens.

Dayta - it comes from the Latin word Datum which is pronounced day tum. At least that's what my middle school science teacher would tell us

Day-ter

Da-tah.

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.

Day-ta. The latter is how Americans pronounce it?

You’re forgetting the third pronunciation, Dat-uh. “Dat,” as in DAT ASS youknowwhatI’msayin

I'm always scared of sounding pretentious when I say [d ae dx ax] for some reason, so I generally settle with [d ey dx ax]

Duh-tah

Just kidding. I say day-ta. Although dah-ta slips out every so often.

Datorade, because relentless 21st century advertising has put worms in my brain.

dota