Always said "sta-tus", but according to general rule, it should be a long "a" sound. But then nothing is really a rule with English 
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Only way to get over right and wrong is statistical analysis of what people actually do say.
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For the record, I grew up in Texas, and we always said STAT-us. I associate STAY-tus as exclusively British.
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Intursting post.
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Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Regional differences aside, mispronouncing words often shows a lack of familiarity with them.
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I have no problem with that. Language is not always logical, but consistency IS logical, so we should always us com-POS-it for the mineral.
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But what I meant more specifically is that pronunciation can assist in creating meaning. DE-crease is a noun, while de-CREASE is a verb.
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Best book ever, imho, on pronunciation is Charles Harrington Elster's The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations.https://www.amazon.com/Big-Book-Beastly-Mispronunciations-Opinionated/dp/061842315X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1505669084&sr=8-1&keywords=the+big+book+of+beastly+mispronunciations …
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Stat-us sounds American, stay-tus sounds British. It's like day-ta and dah-ta, tomay-to and tomat-o
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Also, "apparatus" is correctly pronounced AP-uh-RAY-tus, not AP-uh-RAT-us, though in Texas I learned the RAT pronunciation.
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state-US
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