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Re: Modern manglings of the English (and other) languages
Posted By: Mousie, on host 205.173.143.35
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2000, at 09:25:50
In Reply To: Re: Modern manglings of the English (and other) languages posted by eric sleator on Wednesday, May 10, 2000, at 00:09:16:

> Another thing that I hate about how people pronounce English is when they pronounce it "wrong" when it's really right. Like "route". I say "root" because the way "rowt" sounds bugs me. I hate hearing "rowt", but I can't say anything about it because they're not doing anything wrong. Same thing with "data", which I pronounce "DAY-ta".
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> -eric "I like diacritical marks" sleator
> Wed 10 May A.D. 2000

It was my understanding that one pronunciation of "data" is singular and one is plural; a piece of data is pronounced one way, and the compiled pieces of data are pronounced the other. Um. But I don't know which is which.

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