>>>>I understand that datum is the technically correct term. Do you know anyone, though, who actually speaks that word? Do you speak it?
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>>>I actually have a different form of the same question: why is the word not used broadly? What's wrong with it? It's the basic unit of what our, ahem, industry produces, and we don't use its singular form, only plural? C'mon, it doesn't make sense. I know it exists in both singular and plural in several languages (as a more or less straight translation for Latin "datum", i.e. "a given").
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>>>So why not in English? I miss it dearly. It's a given. It's a datum.
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>>A few more datum and we can form a hypothesis.
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>A few more DATA (if it's more, then it's more than one, if it's more then one then they ARE plural).

Surely your sense of humor is not this displaced.