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This from an item on Radio Four's "More or Less" about the increasing use of singular verb forms after 'data'. After a discussion about the email response from listeners, latim plurals and a discussion from a linguist about mass nouns and count nouns and empiral studies of actual usage, the last word was given to a listener why wrote (something like)
"You don't have to have had a classical education to know that latin words ending in 'um' have 'a' in the plural form - bacterium/bacteria, stratum/strata, memorandum/memoranda and so on. But usage changes, and I think that those who cling to the ancient usage should stick it up their ba."
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He must be an insomniac from Hammersmith. :music-headbanger:
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