Is data singular or plural? [Well you CAN be faulted for using the one that sounds better to you, if you don’t consider your audience – singular for laymen, plural for scientists.Oliver, if I followed your way of thinking, I would misspell “ask” as “aks” whenever I wrote to my (two) friends who, for some unkown reason cannot  pronounce the word “ask” as it is spelt! Some words have unusually formed singulars and plurals, but develop "normal" singular-plural pairs by The term, from Latin, for the main upper arm flexor in the singular is the Geographical names may be treated as singular even if they are plural in form, if they are regarded as representing a single entity such as a country: The following rules apply to the plurals of numerical terms such as Nouns used attributively to qualify other nouns are generally in the singular, even though for example, a The singular and plural forms of loanwords from other languages where countable nouns used attributively are, unlike English, plural and come at the end of the word are sometimes modified when entering English usage.

The plural morpheme in English is suffixed to the end of most nouns. When referring to collected information, especially in electronic form, data is increasingly treated as a singular noun, since a unified concept is often intended• • The data is entered from the forms by a keyboarder. ("opera" as plural of opus).

“….because those searches coverS large amounts of…” Surely, it should read: ‘those searches cover…’ It’s ironic, but not uncommon.

Without a doubt, to speak of five data just sounds silly, but it is natural to specify 5 kilobytes of data.

Some mass nouns can be pluralized, but the meaning in this case may change somewhat. “information”, “money”, and “research”).

The word data has generated considerable controversy on whether it is an uncountable noun used with verbs conjugated in the singular, or should be treated as the plural of the now-rarely-used datum.. Usage in English. )'data' is an alternate term for 'datum'. Odd argument.“Today’s sunlight are too bright, and my homework are killing me.”I think people need to remember what multiplicable singularities are.wait..are you saying that datum is not the singular of data anymore?I’m ok with either form, i.e.

("volumes"). Regular English plurals fall into three classes, depending upon the sound that ends the singular form: Where a singular noun ends in a sibilant sound— /s/, /z/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/, /tʃ/ or /dʒ/ —the plural is formed by adding /ɪz/ or /əz/ (in some transcription systems, this is abbreviated as /ᵻz/). In such cases, the conventionally formed English plural may sound awkward or be confusing. All the data are in. Statistics in this sense have the following characteristics:

However, the reason why I’m posting this is, am I losing my mind, or did I detect an error in the 3rd last line of the article? (plural: data) () A fact known from direct observation.

Forumsdiskussionen mit den Wörtern "data" in der Überschrift:'data' ist ein alternativer Begriff für 'datum'.

Melden Sie einen Fehler oder machen einen Verbesserungsvorschlag.Fehlt etwas Wichtiges? Registration and participation are free!You need to be logged in to use the vocabulary trainer. However, often the abbreviation used for the singular is used also as the abbreviation for the plural; this is normal for most units of measurement and currency.

Phonological transcriptions provided in this article are for However many nouns of foreign origin, including almost all There are many other less regular ways of forming plurals, usually stemming from older forms of English or from foreign borrowings. Nouns like this include: trousers, jeans, glasses, savings, thanks, steps, stairs, customs, congratulations, tropics, wages, spectacles, outskirts, goods, wits

poemata. [From a statistical point of view the data are related to a nonlinear mixed effects model involving repeated measures. They are not used in the singular, or they have a different meaning in the singular. English sometimes distinguishes between regular plural forms of Certain other words borrowed from foreign languages such as The plurals of a few nouns are formed from the singular by adding As noted, the word "children" comes from an earlier form "childer".

However, there could be the many "sands of Africa"—either many distinct stretches of sand, or distinct types of sand of interest to There are several isotopes of oxygen, which might be referred to as different oxygens.

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