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Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put T for true or F for false in the bracket in front of each statement. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so and give the correct version.
Regularization of exceptional plural forms of nouns constantly occurs. By analogy to foe/foes, and dog/dogs, English speakers started saying cows as the plural of cow instead of the earlier plural kine. This analogical change does not occur when words are borrowed from foreign languages.
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名词特殊复数形式的正则化现象时有发生。通过类比foe/foes（敌人）和dog/dogs（狗），英语使用者开始说cows（牛）是cow的复数，而不是以前的复数形式kine（牛）。这种类推的变化也发生在从外语中借用单词时。在许多英语使用者中，一些外来词如memorandum（备忘录单数）/memoranda（备忘录复数）和curriculum（课程单数）/curricula（课程复数）已被常规复数形式取代：memorandums和curriculums。