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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Are you sure about that? While you are indeed a member of the Alumni Association, and you and your former male classmates are now alumni, I think you alone are still an alumna of the University because you are female and there is only one of you. The fact that the school is co-ed doesn't affect the fact that as one female you're an alumna. It's only in the plural that mixed groups take the masculine form.
And we could point out that historically, alumni is pronounced a-lum-nee, while alumnae is pronounced a-lum-nie (as in pie). My Pi Phi mother-in-law still pronounces them that way.
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Technically, I can call myself an alumna or an alumnus of Alabama but since they only have an Alumni Association I can only be a member of it. I can't make it Alumnae. And alumnae rhymes with "knee" not "pie." You've got that part backwards. 3 years of Latin and 30 years as a Catholic when they only used Latin....not to mention the Delta Gamma crib sheet....
I have however heard it - back in the day - pronounced alum-nay...but then you can get into the whole hard c/soft c thing too.....is it vee-chee or vee-key????? Only Cesaer knows for sure....