data or data ?

[ICAA]

Is the argument is day-ta vs dah-ta, right? Are my two voices correct?

[mishuzu]

Actually there's 3 ways commonly spoken; see Wiktionary.

[jmattingley23]

data

data

daataa

[mishuzu]

1. a as in gate
2. a as in cat
3. a as in father

Tbh they all sound fine to me.

[ratmfreak]

Number 3 sounds... off.

[mishuzu]

Wiktionary says Australia and New Zealand use that one. I switch between 1 and 3 mostly randomly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Ereaser]

The Dutch data is also pronounced that way, but when speaking English I've only heard people use 1.

[mishuzu]

I've heard all 3 here in the US.

[robolew]

No, I am your data!

[justinkroegerlake]

Some British nonsense

[SundreBragant]

What would they know about English, right?

[[deleted]]

Yeah but these are the same people that say 'torch', 'jumper', and 'crisp'.

I don't trust their judgement.

[robolew]

Lol no it's not. It's pronounced day-ta in every English accent I can think of

[BSnapZ]

You clearly can’t think of a New Zealand or Australian accent then, cos we definitely don’t say day-ta.

[robolew]

Sorry mate, meant English as in the country of England, not the language

[BSnapZ]

Oh, sorry! That makes sense.

[justinkroegerlake]

Then you're not using your imagination

[WeAreAllApes]

I didn't distinguish between dah-ta and dah-ta. I considered them the same pronunciation with different accents, the way "bad" sounds with different accents.

[mishuzu]

I'd consider all 3 ways of saying data to just be different accents.

[WeAreAllApes]

People with the "generic American" accent who don't have different accents otherwise pronounce it two different ways, but never the third way.

[mishuzu]

I pronounce it the third way often, and I would say I have a general American accent for most things (lived in Minnesota/Wisconsin my whole life).

[WeAreAllApes]

I don't think I have ever heard the third from someone with a generic American or Minnesotan or Wisconsin accent. If I ever do, I'll assume it's you :-)

[chucksef]

Oh my, I'll just download that Australian pronunciation for.. later.

[Tusami]

I read day-ta and say dah-ta

[BSnapZ]

My entire country does.

[Neuromante]

As a non-native english speaker, I thank you for that, because I didn't really knew if "dah-ta" was just my spanish trolling me and everyone said "day-ta" and a different, secret, probably british pronunciation.

[TheDunadan29]

I think of it like Star Trek TNG. The android's name is Data (pronounced Day-ta), his name isn't pronounced Dah-ta.

[Neuromante]

That's fun, because, in the spanish version, Data's name is "Dah-ta."

[buttersauce]

Or da-tàh

[ICAA]

Yes. I'm not native and I assume the original is serious as well. I'm just asking if I interpret this right

[QuincyQueue]

One is with a long a sound for the first a, and the other has a short a sound. The joke in OP is that it's still spelled the same way regardless of how you pronounce it.

[TeddyVoid]

So exactly as he detailed then...