Chainweasel to Ask LemmyEnglish • 2 months agoDo you pronounce "Data" as "Day-ta" or "Dah-ta"?message-square125arrow-up1158arrow-down111
arrow-up1147arrow-down1message-squareDo you pronounce "Data" as "Day-ta" or "Dah-ta"?Chainweasel to Ask LemmyEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square125
minus-squareLvxferrelinkfedilink6•edit-22 months agoIt’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/.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 months agoOhh nice, that table helps. I felt like something was off about people sometimes using more /ði:/ than what I was taught!
It’s both things, and subjected to wide variation:
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/.
Ohh nice, that table helps. I felt like something was off about people sometimes using more /ði:/ than what I was taught!