I just say Data
Funny, that is exactly how I imagined it. Saying data is so much better than saying data.
It’s day-da not da-da
And then there’s me pronouncing Ts like Ts and not like Ds. “Day-tuh” vs “Dah-tuh”.
I wonder what Lt. Cmdr. Data would think of my pronunciation vs the American way of saying it and I’m trying to recall which pronunciation Sir Patrick used being that he’s an Englishman playing a Frenchman…
There’s a clip of Sir Stewart delivering the opening lines with a French accent. It’s hilarious
The movement of sound up/forward in the mouth is a common thing in language, so much so there’s a name for it (which I can’t recall).
All language shows this pattern.
Pretty fascinating stuff that John McWhorter covers in at least 2 Great Courses:
The Story of Human Language
and
Language Families of the World
He may also mention it in Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet, but I may be misremembering.
Australians say Data and I just can’t get on board with that.
Just as bad as people who say mana and not mana.
