On 12/13/2013 04:57 PM, Arlo Barnes wrote:
A rather hackish proxy, but ngram
<https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=data+were%2Cdata+was&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Cdata%20were%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bdata%20were%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BData%20were%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cdata%20was%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bdata%20was%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BData%20was%3B%2Cc0>
here.
Nice! Thanks for the ngram link. "ukraine, the ukraine" is interesting
as well. A significant separation started in 1915.
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... it is unfortunate that enthymeme resolution is treated as a kind of
presumptive meaning determination. -- Gabbay & Woods in "The Reach of
Abduction"
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