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[DragoonKain]

I find myself going back and forth with both pronunciations and I want to just pick one and stick with it going forward. No more fence sitting on this important issue.

 

[Frank Horrigan]

da-uh. I have a rare bone disease that doesn't allow me to pronounce the 't' in daa.

 

[Dream-Knife]

I always assumed dah-tuh was the european was of saying it, like aluminum.

 

[DragoonKain]

I always assumed dah-tuh was the european was of saying it, like aluminum.

I have no idea, I've heard Americans say it both ways.

 

[haxan7]

I go back and forth too.

 

[AJUMP23]

I do it the second way if I want to sound pretentious.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

I've always said it the second way.

But I *am* pretentious.

Pinkies up, bitches.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Day-tah.

But the letter Z is zed.

 

[TheGrat1]

Day-tuh (Data)
Kel-ticks (Celtics)
Noh-tra-dahm (Notre Dame)

 

[GeekyDad]

day-duh

 

[FunkMiller]

Only psychopaths pronounce it dah-ta.

Or, as everyone else insists on calling them... 'Australians'.

 

[Tams]

Where's 'duh-tuh' in your poll, eh OP?

You have failed us.

 

[Dark Star]

day-tuh

i'm texan

 

[bitbydeath]

The Y makes it fancy, like Tar-Jay vs Tar-Get.
I tend to opt for the less fancy.

 

[NahaNago]

I tend to go back and forth on this as well.

The Y makes it fancy, like Tar-Jay vs Tar-Get.
I tend to opt for the less fancy.

I kind of feel like the lack of Y makes it sound more cold and clinical. Tar-jay always seemed like a poor man's idea of a fancy class shop.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

DA TA

Like papa

 

[-Minsc-]

DA TA

Like papa

Day-ta. The "ta" like above.

 

[Tams]

DA TA

Like papa

Wrong.

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

dayt-urh

or kinda sounds like "date her" but not much focus on the H. date'er

 

[Kamina]

Noh-tra-dahm (Notre Dame)

Sure, if you want to be beat–up with a baguette

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

Wrong.

Not where I live

 

[The Cockatrice]

Both

 

[Rest]

It depends on which is easier to say or which sounds better in the sentence.

 

[p_xavier]

Do router now.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

Do router now.

Router as in jouster

 

[p_xavier]

Router as in jouster

Ottawa people say root-er Montreal follks say roaute-er. The first one drives me crazy.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

Ottawa people say root-er Montreal follks say roaute-er. The first one drives me crazy.

What do they say in Nova Scotia? (I was born there) =)

Also, many folks say Rooter here in Holland.

 

[p_xavier]

What do they say in Nova Scotia? (I was born there) =)

Also, many folks say Rooter here in Holland.

I can't understand their English in the first place with their strong accent lol.

 

[dr_octagon]

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/how-do-you-say-data.1588217/

 

[vewn]

It's dya-tha

 

[jason10mm]

Between that gross mansplaining (and there are MANY cases of him doing this to other womxn in the show) and him banging Tasha yar, TNG Data was an alt-right BEAST!

 

[Maiden Voyage]

I've been pronouncing it duh-ata this whole time.

 

[jason10mm]

I always assumed dah-tuh was the european was of saying it, like aluminum.

I never understood how the brits got to that "ALuMINeum" pronunciation, they are straight adding a vowel or two.

Even worse is "SHEDual" for schedule.

Though I admit I fall on the "nucUlar " side of things versus the much more odd sounding (to my ear) "nuCLEAR".

 

[IDKFA]

Day-tuh.

Dah-tuh is blue blooded murder of the English tongue!

 

[dr_octagon]

I never understood how the brits got to that "ALuMINeum" pronunciation, they are straight adding a vowel or two.

Even worse is "SHEDual" for schedule.

Though I admit I fall on the "nucUlar " side of things versus the much more odd sounding (to my ear) "nuCLEAR".

 

[Ulysses 31]

dad-dah

 

[poppabk]

I never understood how the brits got to that "ALuMINeum" pronunciation, they are straight adding a vowel or two.

Even worse is "SHEDual" for schedule.

Though I admit I fall on the "nucUlar " side of things versus the much more odd sounding (to my ear) "nuCLEAR".

The aluminium being pronounced different to aluminum is because they are spelt (spelled) differently.

 

[jason10mm]

The aluminium being pronounced different to aluminum is because they are spelt (spelled) differently.

And the reasons behind 1776 becomes all the more clear

 

[The Lunch Legend]

dat-ass

 

[Zeroing]

I use the second one because it is how we pronounce in my mother tongue!

dat-ass

Well thank you!! I hear it all the time!

 

[TheDreadLord]

Well, since it comes from Latin "Datum" it should be pronounced as "Da-Ta", as in "Papa".

 

[Catphish]

Mostly day-tuh, but dah-tuh does slip in from time to time for reasons I may never understand.

 

[MaestroMike]

tomayto or tomahto OP???

 

[Goalus]

Day-tuh whenever I try to speak English.
Dah-tuh on every other occasion.

 

[Schrade]

The aluminium being pronounced different to aluminum is because they are spelt (spelled) differently.

Aluminium - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

British chemist Humphry Davy, who performed a number of experiments aimed to isolate the metal, is credited as the person who named the element.
The first name proposed for the metal to be isolated from alum was alumium, which Davy suggested in an 1808 article on his electrochemical research, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

....

The following year, Davy published a chemistry textbook in which he used the spelling aluminum.

Like GIF, let the person who names it be correct in the spelling and pronunciation.

 

[E-Cat]

All I can hear is Euclideon and UNLIMITED dah-tuh

 

[Kamina]

da–da

 

[6502]

I pronounce it jata.

 

[M1chl]

According to phonetic context, sometimes it sounds better to say data, sometimes to say day-ta as JLP says beta

JLP beta yell

Jesse Lee Peterson yells beta and laughs.

youtube.com