On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Ron Wilson <ronw.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > BTW, the singular of "data" is "datum". > It is in Latin. In English "data" is a mass noun or an "uncountable noun". Like "sand" or "information" or "water", it has no plural form and always takes a singular verb. We know that "data" cannot be plural in English because in English, compound nouns never take the plural form. And yet "data" is frequently used in compound nouns: "data center", "data analysis", "data processing", "data mining", etc. Hence, "data" cannot be a plural noun. -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org
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