I do
Yes, I’m from the UK and that’s just how it’s said here.
I pronounce it ta da~! , jazz hands included
I’ve taught statistics for over 20 years. I flipflop on this constantly, sometimes in the middle of a sentence. Even more disturbing: I don’t have a consistent position, at least grammatically, on whether it’s singular or plural.
It’s sort of like the dual pronunciation of the word ‘a’ in English. While that has more distinct rules, it’s still mostly which one feels nicer.
Another one for me is “route”.
edit: On further thought, it only works both ways as a synonym for a highway, if I’m talking about a path more generally the root pronunciation sounds wrong.
I do, but that’s because “now these points of data make a beautiful line, and we’re out of beta, we’re releasing on time.”
If anyone would know how to pronounce it, it’s a computer
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5GqABNl26ZY&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD
This is the way.
If you mean like “Dei-tuh” , then yah . Just sounds more natural to me
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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.
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
Yes. I’m British.
Exactly what I was gonna say.
I use them interchangeably 🙈
It is pronounced /ˈdætə/.
Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive.
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”
The singular of data is datum though?
Yes you’re right, but then you get into the argument
- The data is corrupt
- The data are corrupt
I’m camp one because I treat data as a collective noun of data-items, not as a plural of datum.
Fair enough - I’d also go with ‘the data is corrupt’ so looks like I must eat my own words!
Yes, i watched TNG before (and during) i learned English
