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Comment by fnord123

1 day ago

> America is sick. The data is clear.

Can we inform dictionaries and encyclopaedia that data is now a mass noun and it is considered archaic to use data as a plural of datum?

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sn0wleppard  1 day ago

OED records the first usage as a mass noun in 1702, I think the ship's already sailed there

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