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Originally Posted by Titchou
If you are talking about a woman, such as myself, who is a grad of a school which has both genders, then yes, I am an alumnus of the University of Alabama and belong to the Alumni Association . . . .
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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.
#alli'vegot
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