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Do you pronounce the word “data” like the Star Trek character? (Day-ta) (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Interesting. From some googling it looks like America is a mix of both but leaning towards day-ta, whereas the other countries are more consistently as I said.

I have a British friend who now lives in Canada and works in tech and has changed the way he says it (from day-ta to dah-ta, or really more like dah-da) for convenience. I had thought that it was an Atlantic divide but seems like there's more to it.

[–] tleb 2 points 2 days ago

I'm a software developer in Canada. I've only ever heard "day ta"