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More or Less: Behind the Stats
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Data in Modern English - What's the Difference?
Dr Beth Mallory is a corpus linguist at the Survey of English Usage. She says that for most people, data is always used with a singular. So it's like what, like sand? Yeah. Well, you could say sands if you were...Yeah, exactly. If you were in the middle of the poem Ozimandias, but generally you would say sand. Exactly. The FT should be setting a good example, not to basing our language on words.
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