Dayta or Darta?

[Mark_Wallace]

Henry Minute wrote:

Does anyone know how the Japanese pronunciation sounds?

AIRI, 'i' is either pronounced short 'ee' or short 'oo', same as Chinese.

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[Mark_Wallace]

People who pronounce it wrong make me go nucular.

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[Henry Minute]

OK. So it should be Noosahn then?

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

[Daniel Vaughan]

Then I expect you would also not like My Seaquuool (MySql) either. I heard this one the other day, made me wince.

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[Gary Wheeler]

Hmm. Local convention for me is: "Route" is pronounced as "root" when the word is used as a noun: "I found a better route to work." "Route" is pronounced as "rowte" ("row" like "cow") when the word is used as a verb: "They routed traffic around the accident."

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[mojp]

What? I thought Dayta was just another Americanism. I say Darta, and DartaBayse, and Darta Myning, and Darta Module. What surprises me is that a Ozzie guy said Darta correctly. Ozzies more often sound like Americans. (I'm a Kiwi, by the way)

[Richard Deeming]

Sod it - let's forget the dayta/darta argument and just say "Lore"[^] instead! ;P

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[Searril]

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

I hate it when some people say SQL server as "SEAQUUOOL server". Mad

I thought everyone called it that. Seriously. I can't remember ever hearing someone say "ess queue ell server" if that's what you're implying. It's been pronounced "sequel server" forever.

[urbane tiger]

I don't recall ever hearing anyone say SEAQUOLL, but if they did I'd be thinking that someone has discovered a marine going one of these[^]. There's a member of the BBC World Service football commentariat who refers to Milan as MeeeeeeLAN, it sounds awful, can't remember his name, if he says more than twice I turn him off.

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[Henry Minute]

mojp wrote:

(I'm a Kiwi, by the way)

There's' no need to apologise. Most of us will speak to anybody. :)

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[Searril]

Ian Shlasko wrote:

Other annoying ones: * Jaguar (The cars)... Is it "Jag-war", "Jag-wahr", or "Jag-you-are"? I know know of the commercials I've seen for it uses both the first and third pronunciations... Two announcer voices, one of them using each. I pick the first. {snip} * Nuclear... "Noo-clee-arr"... I'm sorry, but "Nuke-you-lar" is just totally unacceptable, and these people need to go back to grammar school. I had so much fun talking about GWB back in the day, because he would mispronounce other words too... Korea, to him, was the "Nuke-yuh-luh puh-nin-shuh-luh"

Where I live, in the armpit of America, the locals like to pronounce Jaguar as "jag-wire". Talk about grating. The nuclear thing is horrid, too. Oh, and around here (again, the armpit of America) these people just like to stick an R in wash or Washington. So they pronounce those "warsh" or "Warshington". Ugh.

[Searril]

goodideadave wrote:

As both an American and a native Chicagoan, I can't tell you how much better it is having a President who can pronounce nuclear correctly.

Too bad half the legislators from both the monster parties also pronounce it the crappy way :(

[Mark_Wallace]

I think the most apt pronunciation is "tinny".

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[Wenff]

Hate to break it to you, but countries with a strong Brittish infuence are far more likely to use "darta" than those with a strong American influence. It's not about being snobby, it's about how trashy your country's accent is/isn't ;P

[KramII]

No, no, no! British: It's a tin.

KramII

[Dave Buhl]

plus one here.... i think you could probably find some documentation where they actually specify that pronunciation. and I sometimes use dayta and sometimes use dahta, not sure why public schools :)

[phil2415]

I'm definitely a "Dayta" guy. This use of longer forms of vowels to try and sound clever or proper is getting out of control. I got so mad the other day when I heard a newsreader talking about "Irarq" and, worst of all, "Parkistarn". Near where I live a local car dealer used to advertise on the radio (maybe still does). He had a Nissan dealiership and he used to end his adverts with the Nissan slogan of the time, "You can with a Nissan." Except he used to say "You caaaaan with a Nissun." He pronounced the 'a' in Nissan very quickly, like in "doberman". He seemed to have completely missed the point that the slogan was supposed to rhyme! :laugh:

[coding4ever]

Had an English teacher in high school who was all about good grammer and what not. But she routinely told us we needed to work on our pro-NOUN-ciation during our public speaking assignments. It was humorous at first but got annoying after the first month of the semester. Also is McAfee pronounced MIC-afee or MAC-afee? As far as I know Mc is supposed to be pronounced MIC and Mac is MAC but being a few generations removed from my Irish/Sottish roots I could be wrong....

[considerthis]

I agree. Back in 1992 before there was such a thing as Microsoft SQL Server, even the comp sci profs at university would pronounce it "Sequel Server". These SQL servers were running on VMS. I just have to laugh, though, when I see someone spell it in their emails as "Sequel Server".

[Fabio Franco]

The same fanboy voted you down. I'll vote you up to balance things. Unless... You are the one