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Originally Posted by Drolefille
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.
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Perhaps it has devolved to this but I took 3 years of Latin and was raised Catholic when everything was in Latin. That's how it was then.
And either way, she would never be "an alumni" as alumni is plural.