Re: Debian 5 -- "data" is plural.
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On 2014-05-21 04:23, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 20 May 2014, Weaver wrote:
>
> [snip]
> Pedantic or not, I'd never treat data or media as singular. An
> still worse usage, which I find even with some scientific speakers,
> is to use bacteria as singular. If we are going to anglicise the
> word, which I think is a defensible view, we should make the plural
> to be bacteriums.
And "criterions" as well, I suppose. In any event I shall continue to
speak and write English the same way I was taught it from 1943 to
1955, and French as well which I learnt at the same time.
Regards, Ken
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