11 Oct
2001
11 Oct
'01
5:13 p.m.
"Dr. Evil" wrote:
There was a time when "data" was purely the plural form of latin "datum". Not anymore. The first example given by the online Merriam-Webster dictionary is, whattayaknow, "the data is plentiful and easily available".
Some of us will always know that "data" is plural
In Latin maybe. But English has this nice thing with countable and non-countable forms of nouns. "That data" and "those data" mean subtly different things. Like "Some bread" and "some breads".