I appreciate the fact that universities have been teaching the singular concept for years. It is a topic that I have debated with folks like Ted Codd and Chris Date for decades. I also love the controversy bred by this topic.

A roomful of human entities is not a gathering of person, but people. A company meeting is not attended by employee, but employees. Reinventing the language "wheel" is an unnecessary expense that leads to higher maintenance costs, longer development times, and overall confusion.

One of my first mentors was Peter Page', the inventor of NATURAL language. His intent was that the language of programming read like a great book. Have you read any great books lately?