Bucknell Dumps Coach

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Despite your Superiority Complex, your kid couldn't get in. So only you should be embarrassed.

Not from Bucknell

Bucknell, you need to move on. Don't make me call security. Seriously, move on. It's over.

You put on a lot of weight.

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I never looked at Bucknell too highly of a school anyways. Way to many bad stunts pulled by the school in recent years my daughter and I just crossed it off our list. It seems like a school riddled with problems from the admissions sector to the athletics sector.

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I never looked at Bucknell too highly of a school anyways. Way to many bad stunts pulled by the school in recent years my daughter and I just crossed it off our list. It seems like a school riddled with problems from the admissions sector to the athletics sector.

At least we're not Laughayette!!!!!

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I never looked at Bucknell too highly of a school anyways. Way to many bad stunts pulled by the school in recent years my daughter and I just crossed it off our list. It seems like a school riddled with problems from the admissions sector to the athletics sector.

Applications were up 39% this year. http://www.bucknell.edu/news-and-med...lications.html

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I never looked at Bucknell too highly of a school anyways. Way to many bad stunts pulled by the school in recent years my daughter and I just crossed it off our list. It seems like a school riddled with problems from the admissions sector to the athletics sector.

If your daughter's grammar is as poor as yours is, she'll have no chance of getting into to any of those 3 PA Patriot League schools, or most others than require literacy to get in

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Applications were up 39% this year. http://www.bucknell.edu/news-and-med...lications.html

Look, a press release from Bucknell! I'm sure the data is accurate. Who is the auditor?

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Just curious. Why are we picking on Bucknell? A phenomenal school.

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Just curious. Why are we picking on Bucknell? A phenomenal school.

It's just one illiterate loudmouth. Most people know it's a quality school giving kids a quality education

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Look, a press release from Bucknell! I'm sure the data is accurate. Who is the auditor?

Data is a plural noun. Had you been good enough to attend Bucknell, you would have written "I'm sure that data are accurate."

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If your daughter's grammar is as poor as yours is, she'll have no chance of getting into to any of those 3 PA Patriot League schools, or most others than require literacy to get in

it's an online forum... who cares about grammar. as long as the post is readable who the **** cares?

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Data is a plural noun. Had you been good enough to attend Bucknell, you would have written "I'm sure that data are accurate."

TOP 10 GRAMMAR MYTHS: DATA IS PLURAL SO MUST TAKE A PLURAL VERB
Data is a Latin plural with a singular datum though datum is seldom used on its own any more. The Macquarie Dictionary says: ‘The connection between data the plural and datum the singular has been almost completely broken, so that while datum survives in such compounds as datum point, it does not have the frequency of use that data has.

But should data be singular or plural?

Many writers, knowing its Latin origins, insist that data must take a plural verb.

The data were analysed after they were collected.
rather than
The data was analysed after it was collected.

Both usages exist today, but often the distinction will be made based on whether you are treating data as a count or noncount noun (also known as a mass noun).

When data is a count noun (items that can be counted), the plural makes sense.

Many of the data used were out of date.

In that type of sentence, you could replace data with another count noun such as ‘facts’.

However, when data is treated as a noncount noun (items cannot be counted), the singular makes sense.

Much of the data used was out of date.

With that type of sentence, you could replace data with a word such as ‘information’.

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Get a life Grammar Man!

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Data is a plural noun. Had you been good enough to attend Bucknell, you would have written "I'm sure that data are accurate."

That is incorrect. If you were a scientist or regular reader of scientific journals you would know that "data", when referred to in the general (as opposed to specific data points), is attached to singular form of verb. Bucknell graduates and faculty have probably not published frequently enough to have run into this issue so your ignorance of the issue is to be expected. The presumption of your correction speaks poorly of the school, however.

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Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

George W. Bush, Florence, SC; January 11, 2000

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That is incorrect. If you were a scientist or regular reader of scientific journals you would know that "data", when referred to in the general (as opposed to specific data points), is attached to singular form of verb. Bucknell graduates and faculty have probably not published frequently enough to have run into this issue so your ignorance of the issue is to be expected. The presumption of your correction speaks poorly of the school, however.

Most style guides and dictionaries have come to accept the use of the noun data with either singular or plural verbs, and we hereby join the majority.

As usage has evolved from the word’s origin as the Latin plural of datum, singular verbs now are often used to refer to collections of information: Little data is available to support the conclusions.

Otherwise, generally continue to use the plural: Data are still being collected.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/...aint-a-plural/

The Wall Street Journal has bowed to common usage. Descriptive grammar trumps prescriptive grammar. If we can use "tonite" in place of "tonight" and "donut" in place of "doughnut," everything should be on the table. Let's make pi equal to 3 while we are at it. Caclulations are much easier that way.