In
<77142d37c0c3c34da0d7b1da7d7ca343415c6...@nwt-s-mbx2.rocketsoftware.com>,
on 07/30/2012
at 08:32 PM, Bill Fairchild <[email protected]> said:
>but I have heard "data is" my whole life when listening to
>conversational English (not Latin), find "data are" to sound strange,
While I cringe when I hear "item of data" instead of the shorter and
clearer "datum".
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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