词组 | référendums, referenda |
释义 | référendums, referenda These two plurals are about equally represented in our files for the past thirty years. In the 1960s and 1970s, référendums was somewhat more common; in the 1980s referenda has a slight lead. Copperud 1980 thinks that referenda sounds affected, but there is nothing in our evidence to suggest that anyone else does. No one seems to have any difficulty in recognizing referenda as a plural. For a list of foreign plurals which are sometimes used as singulars, see Latin plurals. |
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