Rhubarb cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit:- "Rhubarb" originally comes from the two Greek words for rhubarb. "Rheon" from the Persian "rewend", later became the Latin word "rheum", meaning rhubarb. The other Greek word is "rha", an ancient name for the Volga River in Russian, where rhubarb was cultivated, having been introduced there from China via the Silk Road. In medieval Latin, "rheon" and "rha" became "rheum barbarum", literally "foreign rhubarb" or "strange rhubarb", and evolved later into "rheubarbarum". Most likely, the English word "rhubarb" entered the language via the French word "rhubarbe" brought over by
Data (word) Data (word) The word data has generated considerable controversy on whether it is an uncountable noun used with verbs conjugated in the singular, or should be treated as the plural of the now-rarely-used "datum". In one sense, "data" is the plural form of "datum". "Datum" actually can also be a count noun with the plural "datums" (see usage in datum article) that can be used with cardinal numbers (e.g. "80 datums"); "data" (originally a Latin plural) is not used like a normal count noun with cardinal numbers and can be plural with such plural determiners as "these" and "many" or