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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob
Oxford English Dictionary:
"Referendums is logically preferable as a plural form meaning ballots on one issue (as a Latin gerund, referendum has no plural). The Latin plural gerundive referenda, meaning things to be referred, necessarily connotes a plurality of issues."
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I'm just glad the public are clamouring to vote in a referendum regarding European Union membership, and it isn't anything to do with a cactus.
That could get very confusing.
Especially if there was more than one.