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I think "data" can be both singular or plural, so both can work. I could be wrong though.
"What do the data say?"
"What does the data say?"
I always treat it like the latter since it's a singular body of datum points. A book isn't a plural collection of pages.
Oh yep, not sure what I was thinking there.
It's a British thing, like how they say aluminum with an extra i
...You mean the correct way to say "aluminium." Whose this aloominum fellow? I don't know him.
Don't tell me you also say "mischievEEous" and "drorring" or that you "go to hospital"
Nope. Australian. We just spell words correctly, then mispronounce everything in speech.