Chainweasel@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agoDo you pronounce "Data" as "Day-ta" or "Dah-ta"?message-squaremessage-square100fedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down14
arrow-up1111arrow-down1message-squareDo you pronounce "Data" as "Day-ta" or "Dah-ta"?Chainweasel@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agomessage-square100fedilink
minus-squareLvxferre@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-212 hours agoIt’s both things, and subjected to wide variation: - 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/.
It’s both things, and subjected to wide variation:
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/.