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Old 11-27-2008, 05:42 PM
stufield stufield is offline
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gruber:

You are not an "alumni". "Alumni" is masculine plural. You are an "alumnus", masculine singular.

The feminine equivalents are "alumna" (singular) and "alumnae" (plural).

Anyone who can't keep that straight, male or female, can just refer to himself or herself as an "alum" and nobody will ever know that he or she doe not know the proper Latin ... yes, it's Latin, not Greek ... although it's clearly Greek to some people.
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