>I talked recently with Ken Jacobsen, my local WA State representative,
>and he told me a funny story about the last legislative session. He said
>some administrative staff (non-partisan types) had put a sign on the
>bulletin board:
>
> THE PLURAL OF ANECDOTE IS NOT DATA.
>
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>Sounds like a fun sig-line for some Tweeter, eh? --EB

I think we have a new word in our vocabulary for a collection of stories
that just may or may not be true: ANECDATA.

Surely a word for the Washington Bird Records Committee.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416