"the plural of anecdote is (not) data."

[Aaron Dinkin]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Sam Clements wrote:

> Did we do this one before?  Or am I just misremembering, having read it =
> over at Straightdope, or somewhere else?
>
> The "not" form seems to be cited only from 1999.

A Google search produces Usenet citations of the "not" form as early as
1993. A post in alt.activism.death-penalty is the earliest I found:

http://tinyurl.com/279sh


-Aaron J. Dinkin