Chainweasel@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoDo you pronounce "Data" as "Day-ta" or "Dah-ta"?message-squaremessage-square113fedilinkarrow-up1150arrow-down17
arrow-up1143arrow-down1message-squareDo you pronounce "Data" as "Day-ta" or "Dah-ta"?Chainweasel@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square113fedilink
minus-squareLimfjorden@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 months ago“The” does have two pronunciations depending on if the word after it starts with a vovel sound or not. It’s “Thuh” for consonants and “Thee” for vowels.
minus-square1rre@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-23 months agoNo it’s not… it’s purely emphasis/stress via vowel reduction in English? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_and_vowel_reduction_in_English
“The” does have two pronunciations depending on if the word after it starts with a vovel sound or not. It’s “Thuh” for consonants and “Thee” for vowels.
No it’s not… it’s purely emphasis/stress via vowel reduction in English?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_and_vowel_reduction_in_English