Chainweasel@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours agoDo you pronounce "Data" as "Day-ta" or "Dah-ta"?message-squaremessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up188arrow-down13
arrow-up185arrow-down1message-squareDo you pronounce "Data" as "Day-ta" or "Dah-ta"?Chainweasel@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours agomessage-square86fedilink
minus-square1rrelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-22 hours agoNo it’s not… it’s purely emphasis/stress via vowel reduction in English? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_and_vowel_reduction_in_English
minus-squareLvxferre@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 hour 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/.
No it’s not… it’s purely emphasis/stress via vowel reduction in English?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_and_vowel_reduction_in_English
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/.