There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about
There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about
Just based on how often I notice someone mispronounce a word without realizing it (or have done so myself and realized it later). Statistically I'm probably still doing it with some word.
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My teacher told me that he'd fail me if I mispronounced "Data" as "Da ta" and not "Dait a". So I always mispronounce it
Is it a dialect training class? Because otherwise that feels like boarderline racism to penalise someone for having a different an accent.
"Da ta" vs "date-ah" is regional. If you're pronouncing it "wrong" move across the pond and suddenly you'll be right.
I mean I live in Colorado and I've heard it both ways all the time. I've even heard "da tum" and "date 'em" for the singular.
He claimed it wasn't an accent. It was a database class. I think he was correct though as that type of thing transcends accents
He was weird. He spent an entire class talking about his divorce and once came in dressed as a cowboy. Oh, and he also taught us for mathematics, and ended up failing the entire class on coursework.
Oxford English dictionary gives both pronunciations, your teacher is just a dick https://www.oed.com/dictionary/data_n?tab=factsheet#219838686 - it's like my ex who always gave me a hard time for saying "ant" instead of "ahnt."
Your teacher clearly watched Star Trek TNG, because it's Mr *Dait a" not Mr. Da ta.
You just reminded me of my highschool AP bio teacher who was a new Englander, but lived and worked in the UK for a few years. He pronounced half like "hawf" and it was always jarring because otherwise his accent was mostly normal.