Route21
Senior Member
- Joined
- Nov 27, 2010
- Member Type
- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- British English
- Home Country
- England
- Current Location
- Thailand
Hi
Here's one for the teachers....
On the BBC website (BBC News - Rice traced to single domestication event in China), today, I noticed the following comment about the origins of rice:
"Depending on how the researchers calibrated their clock, the data point to an origin of domesticated rice around 8,200 years ago."
Yes, I know that "data" is the plural of "datum", hence "point" rather than "points", but it does tend to jar a little on this NES's ear.
Is this another instance of: "Never end a sentence with a preposition, because a preposition is the wrong word to end a sentence with"?
Comments?
R21
PS I love Thai Hom Mali (Jasmine Rice), but the price has soared here to more than double that of regular rice!
Here's one for the teachers....
On the BBC website (BBC News - Rice traced to single domestication event in China), today, I noticed the following comment about the origins of rice:
"Depending on how the researchers calibrated their clock, the data point to an origin of domesticated rice around 8,200 years ago."
Yes, I know that "data" is the plural of "datum", hence "point" rather than "points", but it does tend to jar a little on this NES's ear.
Is this another instance of: "Never end a sentence with a preposition, because a preposition is the wrong word to end a sentence with"?
Comments?
R21
PS I love Thai Hom Mali (Jasmine Rice), but the price has soared here to more than double that of regular rice!