Re: [nukkad] vish, virii, viruses

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Mahesh chandra gupta wrote:
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> 2. A comparable situation is with respect to data and bacteria.
> Both are plurals, the singular being datum and bacterium. None
> minds now-a-days sentences like: your data ia wrong; not a single
> bacteria was found in this sample.

Correct.
But things sound absurd when people use "datas" to denote plural. At
most, nowadays data should be singular as well as plural.

-Rawat



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