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Depends on how much Star Trek we've been watching lately.

Day-ta

Like this

I pronounce it "data" of course.

Both, randomly switching between them

Yes.

Dah-ta in a day-tabase.

Annoyingly I go back and forth because whichever pronunciation I’m on sounds worse than when I hear it the other way.

Both. I am german and I speak a weird amalgamation of british and american english.

Dat-uh is information, Day-tuh is a Star Trek character.

Both. I feel like one of them always tends to fit the conversation better than the other, but which one that is seems to be totally random.

It depends on how many ay's and ah's are in my sentence. My mouth seems to natural conform to whatever has more as I speak at 9 million words per minute.

Day-tah

And it's uncountable.

I flip flop back and forth, I'm not totally sure if there's a specific rhyme or reason to my choices, it may just come down to a subjective feeling about which I think sounds better in the sentence.

My wife is a dayta analyst, and she analyzes dahta.

Depends. Do you mean the Android Day-Ta? Or you mean the Information Unit Datah.

Day-tay.

I use both. One feels more singular while the other feels more plural though I can't tell you which when you ask me. We have to sneak up on it together.

I have the same issue with "Thuh" and "Thee" for "The."

If were talking about a collection of information..."datta". If we're talking about the worlds' favorite android, his name sounds like "Day-tah".

Dahtum

Dayta

Data.

Data

The latter, just to make everyone else in my organization question themselves. Whether it is correct or not is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is the seed of uncertainty that I plant every day.

Day-tah

But I'm from the UK. Anything else would sound bizarre with my accent

data.... dad - d + ta

the other way doesn't bother me though... unlike "experiment".
it freaks me out when people throw a "spear" in that word

I sounded out both in my head and now I can't remember.

Both