Saturday, July 07, 2012

WSJ now allows singular 'data'

The Wall Street Journal has come over to the idea that in some cases "data" can be singular instead of plural.

(Paul Martin gives a good test - substitute "statistics" for "data"; if it doesn't work, then data should be singular.)

AP has allowed the singular for several years - look under collective nouns for the example.

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