Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bunny.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!bunny!mkw0 From: mkw0@bunny.UUCP (Maurice Wong) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: "Data points" Message-ID: <169@bunny.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 11:25:18 EDT Article-I.D.: bunny.169 Posted: Wed Aug 21 11:25:18 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 19:07:16 EDT References: <214@tekig4.UUCP> <330@faron.UUCP> Organization: GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA Lines: 21 > > Data and datum are not adjectives. Thus, it is either "a point of data," > or "a datum," not "a data point" [sic]. > > -- > > William Ricker > wdr@faron.UUCP (UUCP) > decvax!genrad!linus!faron!wdr (UUCP) > {allegra,ihnp4,utzoo,philabs,uw-beaver}!linus!faron!wdr (UUCP) > The fact that "data" is a noun has nothing to do with whether "data point" is grammatical. There are thousands of noun-noun compounds in the English language, such as "school bus", "speech data", etc. that are perfectly ok. -- Maurice Wong ARPA or CSnet : wong%gte-labs.csnet@csnet-relay UUCP: ...harvard!bunny!mkw0