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Subject:Re: Data and other foreign plurals From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 21 Mar 1995 13:51:34 -0800
John Renish said:
> We should, generally, migrate away from foreign plurals into English plurals
> and American spellings.
I have mixed feelings about this. I have *never* used the word 'datum'
in anything I've ever written. I'm firmly in the 'data is' camp. On
the other hand, I view the distinction between 'criterion' and
'criteria' as a crucial one.
