Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rayssd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!rayssd!sth 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 Article-I.D.: rayssd.550 Posted: Thu Nov 1 16:00:38 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Nov-84 07:14:46 EST Distribution: net Organization: Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI Lines: 10 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