This is an area of active change in the language!
(Datum not in broad usage anymore. Or, to put it another way, data is becoming more like "agenda" than "referenda")
(Datum not in broad usage anymore. Or, to put it another way, data is becoming more like "agenda" than "referenda")
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(Were I a gambling type, tho, I would gamble that the scientific usage on this will trend toward the lay usage, and not the other way around.)
;)
But that's NOT the same situation as "Datum" which has the same meaning outside of science, but simply *isn't used*.