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From: sth@rayssd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: The singular form of data
Message-ID: <550@rayssd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 16:00:38 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  1 16:00:38 1984
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Organization: Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI
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Why do people insist on using "datum" even though it sounds terrible?  I
know what the dictionaries and William Safire say, it's just that it doesn't
"feel" right.  We don't have a plural form of hair, and nobody wants to
invent a latinized form, yet to say "My hair is ..." is technically wrong.

Thanx, I was just venting a pet peeve....


Steve Hirsch,		{allegra, decvax!brunix, ccieng5}!rayssd!sth
Raytheon Co,		 Submarine Signal Div., Portsmouth, RI