13.3.3 Beware of certain plurals that do not end in 's'
In writing concerning data processing, data is now usually
taken as a singular word; in pure science, it is plural. Criteria,
media, and phenomena, however, are definitely plural.
The singulars are criterion, medium, phenomenon.
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