how do you pronounce these words?

Question

1. data: dayta or datta?
2. status: staytus or stattus?
3. apparatus: apparaytus or apparattus?
4. where are you from? :)

Answer 1

1. datta (Dayta is a character on Star Trek)
2. stattus
3. apparattus
4. Texas

I have heard it pronounced both ways--my family use the alternative pronunciations--however, I am the only one who left home to attend boarding school and then University. I now live in the UK, but can't honestly say how they words are pronounced by my English husband. The sound of multiple-pronunciations and terms for items is so second nature at this point, we don't actively notice them anymore.

Answer 2

1. data: datta
2. status: stattus
3. apparatus: apparattus
4. Canada

Answer 3

Same as David R, and I come from the same area. generally, the english will choose the first version of each word, and the Americans the latter.

Answer 4

1. Dayta;
2. Staytus;
3. apparaytus;
4. UK

And obviously our pronunciation is the correct one as it was our language first :-D

Answer 5

I would say:
1) dayta
2) staytus
3)apparattus
And I'm from Scotland.

I think you will find that most Brits will pronounce words as I have written above, whilst Americans will choose the opposite.

Answer 6

1. data: both
2. status: both
3. apparatus: both
4. 14/f/cali

Answer 7

dayta
status: staytus
apparatus: apparattus

Answer 8

i pronounce the first 2 with a 'y'.and apparatus the other way.im scottish

Answer 9

I use the second pronunciation of all three. Am from Saskatchewan, Canada. But I sometimes hear dayta or staytus here, too. Never apparaytus.

Answer 10

1. dayta
2. staytus
3. apparaytus
4. Lowestoft (most easterly point of the British Isles)