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Mosca Posted 19 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
AE Pronounciation of 'Data'
Pronounciation of 'data' seems to come in two flavors:
- as in eight, date, skate ['deda'] (no idea about this)
- as in daddy, add, at ['dada']
Is it that the later is more common somewhere? (towards the west/southwest perhaps). In software engineering you hear both of them - heard one Microsoft engineer say it the first way today - other than that I tend to hear the second form more often.
Any comments on this?
btw - I've seen one thing recently on message boards like this - a check box available to the thread issuer which says "question resolved" - that would be something for this - otherwise fantastic - message board.
- as in eight, date, skate ['deda'] (no idea about this)
- as in daddy, add, at ['dada']
Is it that the later is more common somewhere? (towards the west/southwest perhaps). In software engineering you hear both of them - heard one Microsoft engineer say it the first way today - other than that I tend to hear the second form more often.
Any comments on this?
btw - I've seen one thing recently on message boards like this - a check box available to the thread issuer which says "question resolved" - that would be something for this - otherwise fantastic - message board.
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Hi, I say "day-da", I don't like "dad-a" much... I have no idea which is more common. I hope it's "day-da".
- Hi, I say "day-da", I don't like "dad-a" much...
- I have no idea which is more common.
- I hope it's "day-da".
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Hi,
I say "day-da", I don't like "dad-a" much... I have no idea which is more common. I hope it's "day-da".
I say "day-da", I don't like "dad-a" much... I have no idea which is more common. I hope it's "day-da".
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I think I say the one that uses the same vowel sound as "eight" more often, but I do use both.
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Thanks Grammar Geek, that's even more interesting - both variants being used by the same speaker! I suppose speakers on the east coast would prefer the "eight"-vovelish one more is that right? I typically associate the other one more with the south west? What does CalifJim have to say about it? Or anyone else for that matter ..
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Hey, was the "resolved"-button there two days ago when I started the thread !? 
- I gotta be blind .. sorry - thanks anyway fo
- I gotta be blind .. sorry - thanks anyway fo00
Wow, found long discussion about it here .. and highly entertaining too .. (not to mention educative to me)
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I have worked in data processing (in the U.S.) for many years.
I assure you, the nearly unanimous decision about the pronunciation is DAY-da.
Once in a great while you'll hear people say the other version, especially the non-professionals.
Just ignore them!
I assure you, the nearly unanimous decision about the pronunciation is DAY-da.
Once in a great while you'll hear people say the other version, especially the non-professionals.
Just ignore them!
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I do know that if someone I'm conversing with uses "dad-uh" first, I'll probably pick that up and use it in that conversation.
Do you think it could be like "ant, ahnt"? Now that I live in a region where your uncle's wife is an "ahnt" I am using both forms depending on whom I talking with and what they use.
And let's all sing: poe-tay-toe, poe-tah-toe, toe-may-toe, toe-mah-toe...
Do you think it could be like "ant, ahnt"? Now that I live in a region where your uncle's wife is an "ahnt" I am using both forms depending on whom I talking with and what they use.
And let's all sing: poe-tay-toe, poe-tah-toe, toe-may-toe, toe-mah-toe...
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I always say day-da. I also hear people say it this way too. I have only heard data pronounced dah-da once, by one of my professors.
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Me too Jim, although over here in Europe, still I've reacted cause I've heard quite some authorities in the field say da-da. Anyway good to know.
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