FBI grammar (was Re: FBI utilizing supermarket club cards in profiling)

Ken Brown k.brown at ccs.bbk.ac.uk
Thu Oct 11 05:00:09 PDT 2001


"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".





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