How do you pronounce "Data"?

Quick question,

In general every day conversation, how do you pronounce the word "Data"


Personally, I go with "That-ah". I think I'm pronouncing it wrong, though?

Blisterman

That-ah

Day-Tah


However I pronounce Status as Statt-us, so I've no consistency.

CrazyRabbit

That-ah

I pronounce it "Lore".

haydar

Dah-ta

osullic

That-ah

Day-tah

Jesus Wept

Data.

Storminateacup

That-ah

Day-Tah.
Stay-Tus.


God, aren't words gay when you break them down!

RichieC

Dah -ta... like a fking real person. if I'm referring to the droid in star trek I say Day ta though.

Chaotic_Forces

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

I pronounce it "Lore".

I go with Brent Spiner or else B-4.

dx22

That-ah

Using my mouth and dont call me data

silverspoon

Why would you pronounce it 'that-ah'? Like 'that' with a stereotype Italian accent? I can't see how, from the letters involved, you could wangle that (-ah) pronunciation from data...

It's 'daah-tuh'. (Not 'day-tuh', American pronunciation does not belong in Ireland...)

chin_grin

That-ah

Po-day-ta.

Hyperbullet

That-ah

I pronounce it like him. His reaction in the last 8 seconds of that video also sum up my feelings towards this thread.


:pac:

Napper Hawkins

Whatever ****in way I want yo

PeterIanStaker

That-ah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36TcG5XZDg

Sometimes, Data can get misunderstood

bonerm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1tHYx_sr6o

Lawrence1895

Dahtah

Hank_Jones

That-ah

The-Rigger wrote: »

Data.

chin_grin

That-ah

Ninjas.............Hijacked............my...........mother.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSUU0LBehJ0

Jesus Wept

Poll options are strange.

It's Dat-ah, not that-ah. Where did you get 'that' from?
If said with a Louth accent, sure, then you'd say 'thaaaaat-ah'.

brummytom

That-ah

Storminateacup wrote: »

Day-Tah.
Stay-Tus.

These. The way they're supposed to be pronounced. I've never heard a non-American say dat-ah

Pace2008

That-ah

silverspoon wrote: »

It's 'daah-tuh'. (Not 'day-tuh', American pronunciation does not belong in Ireland...)

Funny, I'd consider your "correct" pronunciation to be more American.

Saila

my old man pronounces EVERY fckin word different to how every one else Ive heard use the word pronounces it, its really annoying :mad:

monaco is mo-naco
theres loads of examples, but cant think of them now.

Aoifey!

I say "That-ah".

Always thought it was right? Maybe not?

languagenerd

That-ah

I think I say "dah-ta" for "data" but "day-tabase" for "database".

But then I also say "either" and "neither" both ways, without concious thought.
Jeez, I'm terribly inconsistent

Pauleta

That-ah

Date-ah. Purely because of Star Trek :cool:

Jesus Wept

brummytom wrote: »

These. The way they're supposed to be pronounced. I've never heard a non-American say dat-ah

Have never heard a non American say Day-tah...

Deus Ex Machina

I suspect that everybody who says Day-ta (or whatever obfuscating phonetic you wish to use, you know what I mean) originally said Dat-ah until they heard somebody whom they believed to be cool saying Day-ta and decided to change.

So to answer your question, I say dat-ah.

Colmo52

Daa Taa

Kensington

Day-ta is to dah-ta like tomay-to is to tomah-to.
Of course then, there's po-tayto and po-tahto.

Seriously, what the bloody hell were the English thinking?

InTheTrees

That-ah

I wasnt around computers until I moved to the usa so I call it day-ta

I always think it sounds odd to hear the limey way of saying dart-a

Dermighty

Dayta, as in the guy from Star Trek

Pace2008

That-ah

Aoifey! wrote: »

I say "That-ah".

Always thought it was right? Maybe not?

No, not at all. I have absolutely no idea where you and the OP got the notion that "D" should ever be pronounced as "th."

silverspoon

Pace2008 wrote: »

Funny, I'd consider your "correct" pronunciation to be more American.

Funny, I'd consider you to be wrong. The American pronunciation of 'data' has an 'ay' sound. Otherwise it'd be pronounced 'dah-dah' phonetically.

Helix

That-ah

KKV wrote: »

Quick question,

In general every day conversation, how do you pronounce the word "Data"


Personally, I go with "That-ah". I think I'm pronouncing it wrong, though?

ok hold on

you actually pronounce it THAT-ah?

or do you pronounce it dat-ah? yet for some reason youre unaware that TH does not make a D sound?

the groutch

I pronounce it Brent Spiner

Pwindedd

That-ah

Data is such a knobby word - I prefer info

Dravokivich

With the passion it deserves...

TanG411

Heyyyyyyyyyy youuuuuuuu guyyyyyyyys.

Capt'n Midnight

Lt Cmdr Day-ta processes Da-Ta.

Unpossible

That-ah

Pace2008 wrote: »

No, not at all. I have absolutely no idea where you and the OP got the notion that "D" should ever be pronounced as "th."

Yeah, everyone knows its the other way around, "th" is pronounced "d".

Time to go to de filums, dere's gonna be a big crowd tonite

Chaotic_Forces

Unpossible wrote: »

Yeah, everyone knows its the other way around, "th" is pronounced "d".

Time to go to de filums, dere's gonna be a big crowd tonite

Actually... "th" isn't pronounced as "d".

wonderfulname

That-ah

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Lt Cmdr Day-ta processes Da-Ta.

Was just about to comment on that, I'm the same, Day-ta for star trek, dah-ta for everything else.

Unpossible

That-ah

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

Actually... "th" isn't pronounced as "d".

Welcome to Ireland

Chaotic_Forces

Unpossible wrote: »

Welcome to Ireland

No, you mean "welcome, I was trying to be smart and saying a certain group can't speak right and failed badly".

Unpossible

That-ah

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

No, you mean "welcome, I was trying to be smart and saying a certain group can't speak right and failed badly".

No I wouldn't write that, my grammar isn't that bad.

Chaotic_Forces

Unpossible wrote: »

No I wouldn't write that, my grammar isn't that bad.

"No, I wouldn't". Your grammar isn't perfect.

Unpossible

That-ah

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

"No, I wouldn't". Your grammar isn't perfect.

I didn't claim it was perfect, just not as bad as what you had written. You were the one trying to appear knowledgeable and it backfired.

Chaotic_Forces

Unpossible wrote: »

I didn't claim it was perfect, just not as bad as what you had written. You were the one trying to appear knowledgeable and it backfired.

True, but you shouldn't mock someone's grammar if yours isn't perfect.
But sure, we'll say you have good grammar. :rolleyes:

Unpossible

That-ah

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

True, but you shouldn't mock someone's grammar if yours isn't perfect.

To be honest I normally ignore grammar mistakes or rather a lot of them I don't notice (you can tell grammar isn't my strong point). I just thought it was funny that you wrote that after giving tips on pronounciation

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

But sure, we'll say you have good grammar

Down here its pronounced "shure" :pac: that and the whole "d" instead of "th" thing is slowly working its way back into my pronounciation since I moved back to Tralee almost two years ago

Owenw

Does anyone pronounce datum 'dah-tum' ? No it's day-tum. Ergo the plural is pronounced ' day tah' . 'Dat ahh' is an abomination.