If you're about to find out that you've been getting this popular word wrong, you might want to go on your favorite social media site and write a status about how you've just been educated. If you do, feel free to link to this article so other people can learn from your mistakes! This one is certainly one of the more 'argued about' pronunciations, but we investigated and have discovered the correct way to say it.
"Status" is a much quicker way of saying "current condition" and is a word that exists completely in the present. However even people with British accents shouldn't be pronouncing it as "stah-tus", and it's not "statt-us" either. The only acceptable way to pronounce this word is "stay-tus". The status of your pronunciation skills has changed whilst you've been reading this list!