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That sent me to a login page, but use of “data” as a singular mass noun like “information” is pretty universally accepted. Some discussion on Wikipedia https:/
by wlesieutre 5y ago
That sent me to a login page, but use of “data” as a singular mass noun like “information” is pretty universally accepted.
Some discussion on Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_(word) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_(word)
Their citation of “Data is most often used as a singular mass noun in everyday usage” points to New Oxford Dictionary of English, 1999, so it’s not super recent shift.