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.”
“The” does have two pronunciations depending on if the word after it starts with a vovel sound or not. It’s “Thuh” for consonants and “Thee” for vowels.
No it’s not… it’s purely emphasis/stress via vowel reduction in English?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_and_vowel_reduction_in_English
It’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/.
Both
I sounded out both in my head and now I can’t remember.
Dat-uh is information, Day-tuh is a Star Trek character.
Data.
That pronunciation always drives me wild! it only makes sense to call it data.
Dah-ta in a day-tabase.
Both. I am german and I speak a weird amalgamation of british and american english.
Same
Dah-ta
Depends on how much Star Trek we’ve been watching lately.
so, always Dayta.
Data is a proper noun, data is not.
Applicable to many areas of my life
Day-ta
This is the way
Ditto
Dih-toe
Die-toe
Dit toh
That’s German and means “the toe”
Die über toe!
Die Bart die
Dy-do
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.
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.
Yes.
Annoyingly I go back and forth because whichever pronunciation I’m on sounds worse than when I hear it the other way.
I recently caught myself using both pronunciations in the same sentence.
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.
By itself or in short sentences, I default to day-ta, but otherwise I’m exactly the same.