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Re: Modern manglings of the English (and other) languages
Posted By: Brunnen-G, on host 203.96.111.196
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2000, at 14:38:02
In Reply To: Re: Modern manglings of the English (and other) languages posted by Mousie on Wednesday, May 10, 2000, at 09:25:50:

> It was my understanding that one pronunciation of "data" is singular and one is plural; a piece of data is pronounced one way, and the compiled pieces of data are pronounced the other. Um. But I don't know which is which.

Well, technically "datum" is the singular of "data." But nobody EVER says "datum" for one piece of data. I can't say it's a word I've ever needed to use much, so I don't get worked up about this one.

Brunnen-"phenomenons gets me every time, though. It's PHENOMENA! Jeez!"G

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