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Old 07-16-2011, 06:32 PM
Drolefille Drolefille is offline
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Originally Posted by Titchou View Post
And just to be picky, it's "alumna" (singular) of a sorority because all members are female. But you would be an "alumnus" of UGA because that is the default for mixed sexes or all males.

(And the plurals are alumnae and alumni, respectfully).
Is that actually correct? I believe that a school function would be an alumni dinner, but one can still be an alumna of a school. When speaking in general using alumnus/alumni makes sense of course, but an individual whose gender is known can be identified appropriately.

Wiki agrees.
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