In article <19990708152231.C2930@???> you write:
> Quoth Olaf Titz on Thu, Jul 08, 1999:
> > The traditional dbm API deals with "datums" as binary blocks represented
> ^^^^^^
> > as pointer/length pairs, not as C strings.
>
> The plural of 'datum' is 'data'.
But the word "data" in this case is ambiguous when referring to
instances of a data type specifically called "datum" (hence the quotes
too, in HTML you would use a CODE tag).
(Exactly the same problem occurs in German when pluralizing "Datum"
which means "date" as in calendar, and the grammatically correct
"Daten" means "data".)
Olaf
