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Most mispronounced words in PNW climbing?


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Data: dahta or DAY-tah?

 

It's DAY-tah dummy. Picard doesn't call him mister dahta after all.

 

On a related note, "data" is a collective plural, not singular, noun. One would correctly say "these data support the theory that..." rather than "this data supports the theory that..." A single piece of information is a "datum" or "data point", and all by itself doesn't support much of anything. "Datas" is not a word unless you're talking about these:

data.jpgdata.jpgdata.jpg

data.jpgdata.jpgdata.jpg

In which case "Lieutenant Commanders Data" would be the more correct plural from.

 

Does this post win the geek award of the day yet, or should I go on? Geek_em8.gifGeek_em8.gifgrin.gif

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arete (uh-rhet)

 

You almost can't go wrong here. <uh RHET>, <ahr ah TEE> and <uh REE tee> are all correct. It's all Greek to me. wink.gif

 

Clatskanie (town), Klaskanine (river) is a good matched set on the north Oregon coast.

 

When I lived in P-town I was asked more than once for directions to the "Willametty" river...

 

I love watching new TV weatherreaders. It's great imagining an entire county or city groaning in unison...

 

Folks in Verlot say <ver LOT>. Of course, folks out in Indiana refer to their hometown as <ver SAILS> (Versailles)...

 

-t

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