A rather hackish proxy, but ngram<https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=data+were%2Cdata+was&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Cdata%20were%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bdata%20were%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BData%20were%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cdata%20was%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bdata%20was%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BData%20was%3B%2Cc0> here. Datan is interesting (Spanish for "they date [the wreck to 1408]") but apparently exclusively non-English/[Modern/Pseudo/Late/regular]Latin? -Arlo
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