I did not know what was wrong, so I asked. I never said that it was wrong.

Turn off bunglevision.

Another one: worst/worse.

eg "That the worse film I've ever seen"

By your own logic, how do you know that's not just a typo?

Because quiet is very easy to mistype as quite, not so I think with worse/worst. Also, I see it much more often.

That data is bad.

http://www.threadbombing.com/data/me...lm_implied.jpg

So now you've resorted to positing silly memes?

Quiet/Quite is the same letters but ordered differently, worse/worst is a completely different letter. By your logic every error here must be a typo.

Bungle,

I think you are a typo.

I have to admit, reference to 'data' in singular form is a pet hate of mine.

Aww, datums.

Dice/Die.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bungle

You ever read that Bungle? Very informative.

The constant misspelling of rouge and rogue on a daily basis got old a long time ago as well.

NERF ROUGE STUN WARLOCK

Because?

Data is (are?) a latin plural. Almost no one knows what that even means, or the difference between mass nouns and count nouns. Anyway, mass nouns (bacon, butter, laundry) always take the singular form, so "the data is correct" would be correct.

There's a wrinkle.

The original meaning of datum was "a given fact or assumption" where datum was singular and data was plural (meaning facts or assumptions). Later, as science became a common discipline, the word data became more associated with grouping of numeric information and labeling as we know it now.

For ease of reading and adhering to the rule of mass nouns, saying "data is correct" is correct if you're using the word to mean a grouping of information. If you're using it in the old English sense or literal Latin sense, you'd have to refer to it in plural. But you're not, are you?

Even that doesn't go anywhere near explaining the difference between data, datum and dataset in a programming environment.

Not in general usage, but when used at work. In statistics and associated programming, the definition of datum and data are quite stringent and actuaries working in a technical environment should know better.

WHY DID NOBODY LAUGH AT MY AWW, DATUMS JOKE???

In all honesty, I laughed, but read it on my phone so didn't reply.