How do you pronounce digital?
Is the T silent in exactly?
In practice, yes it is virtually silent unless one makes a special effort to pronounce it. When we have a consonant cluster here /ktl/ one sound is often not heard. The linguistice term for it is “dissimilation”.
How is 2020 pronounced?
The year 2020 will be “twenty-twenty,” and the year 2115 will be “twenty-one-fifteen.”
How do you pronounce data?
‘Data‘ is pronounced: day-taa, not daa-taa. It is the plural of ‘datum’ (day-tum).
Across all of the English speaking world, data is generally pronounced in three different ways:
- Datta, sounding like matter;
- Darta, sounding like smarter;
- Dayta, sounding like crater.
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