Between this to "data" as a singular, I'm going nuts.
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Between this to "data" as a singular, I'm going nuts.
Do we really have to capitulate regarding "between 10 to 20" or its equivalent "between 10-20"? I don't believe that all those literate reporters who now use this didn't learn better from their high school English teachers, but I don't think I've seen it written correctly a single time in the last two years. I think even decent writers have just given up. And that means I'll be tortured by it until the day I can no longer read.
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Re: Between this to "data" as a singular, I'm going nuts.
I don't know about you, but I don't have a King Canute complex. 
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Re: Between this to "data" as a singular, I'm going nuts.
It's harder for a math teacher. I'd be drummed out of the corps if I ever said to a class "pick a number between five to fifteen." And then I'd have to say inclusive or exclusive, but that's another matter.John F wrote:I don't know about you, but I don't have a King Canute complex.
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach
Re: Between this to "data" as a singular, I'm going nuts.
The rules for word choice in science and mathematics (and philosophy) are quite different from journalism and informal speech and writing, aren't they?
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