Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill

On a point of order, Mrs. Heal. The right hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr. MacShane) may have inadvertently misled the House earlier, and I am sure that he would wish to retract that. As the word "referendum" means "things to be referred", according to the "Oxford English Dictionary", it is indeed a gerundive and therefore the plural should be "referenda". "Referendums" is acceptable in modern usage, though wrong.