In belated celebration of grammar day...

"There is data available" and "There are data available" are both correct.

Quoted: Today, data is used in English both as a plural noun meaning “facts or pieces of information” (These data are described more fully elsewhere) and as a singular mass noun meaning “information”: Not much data is available on flood control in Brazil.

Nice.

Quoted: Examples of retronyms are acoustic guitar (coined when electric guitars appeared), or Parallel ATA (necessitated by the introduction of Serial ATA) as a term for the original Advanced Technology Attachment. World War I was called The Great War until World War II. The advent of satellite radio has prompted the term terrestrial radio.

Heard about this on NPR yesterday morning.

Quoted: Baljinder Mahal is the author of the book <em>The Queen's Hinglish</em>, a guide to the blending of Hindi and English by Indian immigrants to the U.K. She meets with Rob Gifford in the town of Derby in central England for some practical lessons in Hinglish.

This is awesome!

Quoted: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically valid sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs. It was featured in Steven Pinker's 1994 book The Language Instinct, but is known to have been around before February 1992 when it was posted to Linguist List by William J. Rapaport, an associate professor at the University at Buffalo.[1]

redotted from matkow83.

Quoted: Lunch chat at UW HUB
Wednesday July 26, 2006
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
This event does not repeat.
Event Location: 1st floor HUB lobby, near bike shop, bookstore

Good reviews on Amazon. I'll likely buy it.

Quoted: Rosetta Stone Hindi Level 1 Win/Mac Personal Edition

I hope this is as good as it sounds. There is a version available for Hindi!

Quoted: Instead, it mimics language immersion by associating language with pictures. Rosetta Stone doesn't put it this way, but the program asks you to learn like ...