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To: Duke C.

Headline should be, “The data are in”. Datum is singular, data are plural.


4 posted on 12/28/2023 6:21:50 AM PST by Ed Condon (subliminal messages here in invisible ink)
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To: Ed Condon

“Headline should be, “The data are in”. Datum is singular, data are plural.”

I agree with John Derbyshire, data should be singular, as in mathematics, economics, etc.


22 posted on 12/28/2023 6:50:08 AM PST by odawg
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