RE: I suppose this is my most frustrating grammar error

["Andrew Dugas" <dugas -at- intalio -dot- com>]

Yes, technically that's true.

But I think and hope the word is moving towards being an uncountable noun
like water or beer. The usage of datum has become awkward and the English
language is averse to plurals that do not end in "s" or have an interesting
differentiating form, like mice or octupi. I also think the digitization of
information has introduced the word "bit" into our vocabulary; I often see
references to "data bits" which suggests a unit of data, which in turn
supports the concept of data being an uncountable noun.

Anyway, good morning.

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No offence to Jeff (only the most recent user of this), but "data" is a
plural noun.
Greg


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