How do you pronounce it? And where are you from? It would be good to know how old you are too, but if you want to be coy about that, OK.
There are three possibilities that I can think of: (1) Dayta (with the vowel of day), (2) datta (with the vowel of hat) and (3) dahta, with the vowel of father.
Question (B): Same question with strata.
Note: if you want to talk about whether data is singualr or plural, start your own thread. It's all pronunciation here.
You're afraid that the anti-VinnyD contingent will insist on a pronunciation different from (or different than) yours?
My pronunciation of data and strata both have the vowel of day. I'm past normal retirement age.
A) DAY-ta, but I think in my youth I used to say data as in hat
B) strata as in hat ( I don't know ANYBODY who pronounces it differently)
C) status as in hat us (I'd think half the people I know prefer stay-tus)
Pacific Canadian
Age? Even the sequoia kneel to me
American scientist of mature years here, who grew up with scientist parents. Always DAY-ta.
But stratta, whether I'm talking about geology or a type of egg dish.
The DAY-ta show that the stattus of the stratta is a lattice that doesn't matta. (I see I automatically made data plural.)
Day-ta
stratta
stattus
born & raised in Ohio
started hearing datta when I moved to the Boston area
East Coast US, 65:
Day ta
stratta
stay tus
Why are all the answers coming from, um, people of a certain age? Is this not the kind of question that gets youngsters excited anymore?
Kids these days. In my youth, in between bouts of mumblety peg and one a cat, there's nothing we enjoyed more than gathering data to map isoglosses.
Australaberdonian, just turned 58.
Member of ant-eye anti-VinnyD contingent.
Both dayta and dahta but never datta. Status and stattus. Tomahto never tamaydo.