Chainweasel to Ask [email protected]English • 9 hours agoDo you pronounce "Data" as "Day-ta" or "Dah-ta"?message-square75arrow-up173arrow-down12
arrow-up171arrow-down1message-squareDo you pronounce "Data" as "Day-ta" or "Dah-ta"?Chainweasel to Ask [email protected]English • 9 hours agomessage-square75
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•6 hours agoDayta - it comes from the Latin word Datum which is pronounced day tum. At least that’s what my middle school science teacher would tell us
minus-squarePreußisch Blaulinkfedilink19•5 hours agoYour science teacher was wrong, unfortunately. In Classical Latin, datum is pronounced as [ˈd̪ät̪ʊ̃ˑ] “dah-too(m)” and likewise data as [ˈd̪äːt̪ä] “dah-tah.” Not that Latin should really have a say in how we speak English anyhow.
Dayta - it comes from the Latin word Datum which is pronounced day tum. At least that’s what my middle school science teacher would tell us
Your science teacher was wrong, unfortunately. In Classical Latin, datum is pronounced as [ˈd̪ät̪ʊ̃ˑ] “dah-too(m)” and likewise data as [ˈd̪äːt̪ä] “dah-tah.”
Not that Latin should really have a say in how we speak English anyhow.