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&lt;font color=red&gt;DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here.  Post them in our &lt;a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>XMOD (Build: 3607.32596)</generator><item><title>Re: These / this stuff?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheseThisStuff/dhmnk/post.htm#288722</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:06:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:288722</guid><dc:creator>CalifJim</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheseThisStuff/dhmnk/post.htm#288722</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-288722.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>this datum / these data is pretty old-fashioned. 
 
Almost everybody says this data nowadays. (AmE) 
 
CJ</description></item><item><title>Re: These / this stuff?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheseThisStuff/dhmnk/post.htm#288707</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:06:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:288707</guid><dc:creator>nona the brit</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheseThisStuff/dhmnk/post.htm#288707</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-288707.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>stuff is not plural. This stuff. 
 (by the way, most people use data for the singular as well as plural form, apart from in very specialised circles)</description></item><item><title>Re: These / this stuff?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheseThisStuff/dhmnk/post.htm#288670</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 06:06:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:288670</guid><dc:creator>Marius Hancu</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheseThisStuff/dhmnk/post.htm#288670</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-288670.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>"this stuff"</description></item><item><title>These / this stuff?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheseThisStuff/dhmnk/post.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:06:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:288653</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheseThisStuff/dhmnk/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-288653.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>I'm fairly sure that when speaking of "data" it is "these data" -- data being the plural of datum. Does the same go for "stuff"?  
 In other words, is it "these stuff" or "this stuff"?</description></item></channel></rss>