I don’t know when I internalized that “data” is plural and its singular is “datum”, but it wasn’t when I had a similar reaction to “fora”. The former is just ho

I don’t know when I internalized that “data” is plural and its singular is “datum”, but it wasn’t when I had a similar reaction to “fora”. The former is just how my brain handles the word’s count, and the latter is very much like your reaction.