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Your comment actually made me doubt myself so I looked up the correct plural form form anecdote: it's anecdotes or anecdota. But I saw that most probably you ma
by Jun8 12y ago
Your comment actually made me doubt myself so I looked up the correct plural form form anecdote: it's anecdotes or anecdota. But I saw that most probably you made a well-placed pun on the quip "The plural of anecdota is not data", commonly attributed to the economist Roger Brinner (http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=101;t=000076;p=0 http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_to...).
- wutbrodo 12y ago"Anecdata" is a commonly-used colloquialism in fora like these (i.e. around people who are comfortable commonly using the word "data").