From today's Quinion's World Wide Words:
"Several readers queried my writing in the last issue, "The
data so far is unsurprising" because for them "data" is plural. It
may be worth noting that British non-specialist usage has settled
on "data" as a singular mass noun."
Saturday, February 19, 2011
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