Dates and data
The same Latin verb dare, to give, gave us both the word 'date' and 'data'. It must be the language's most generous word. And we cannot avoid this inheritance, as our culture is based on the mastery of time and on the data and facts informing and guiding many of our private decisions and public policies.
Etymologically speaking, the data predates the dat…
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