English as she is spoke.

OK, OK, mea culpa - sort of. "Data" is of course the plural of datum, and therefore should take the plural form of the verb - the data are, rather than the data is. But I've always found that to be a bit pretentious, and the fact of the matter is that most people other than professional statisticians treat data as a singular noun, and that's what I do, even though I know it is strictly wrong. OK?