>That one's a bit mean given that data does have a distinct plural, it just happens to be spelled the same because whoever came up with english didn't really gr

>That one's a bit mean given that data does have a distinct plural, it just happens to be spelled the same because whoever came up with english didn't really grok the phonetic alphabet. Isn't 'data' already plural, with 'datum' being the singular of the plural 'data'?