John --- you said:
>'Data', incidentally, is often treated as a mass term, but it has a
>singular, 'datum'. So the rules are not hard and fast. Information
>and data are obviously closely linked, so one could have a
>grammatical nightmare if one wasn't careful, but idiomatic English
>speakers have
Bob
maybe you would like to analyze this (metonymical) use of information in
Shakespeare's Coriolanus
"(...) But reason with the fellow,
Before you punish him, where he heard this,
Lest you shall chance to whip your information,
And beat the messenger who bids beware
Of what is to be dre
