Timeline for What do you call someone who attends the same university as you?
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| Feb 6, 2018 at 10:23 | comment | added | Toby Speight | @sumelic: Yes, I'd forgotten alumnae - which I shouldn't have done, having been educated at an establishment that was founded for women's education and therefore had cause to use that term! (It only became mixed about ten years or so before I started.) | |
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| Feb 5, 2018 at 21:27 | comment | added | sumelic | @TobySpeight: The plural of alumna is alumnae. It's not seen that often, but it would be appropriate for example when talking about the graduates of a women's college. The masculine plural alumni is used to refer to mixed groups because that's how the gender of plural nouns works in Latin. | |
| Feb 5, 2018 at 10:19 | comment | added | Toby Speight | @CookieMonster - it's also the plural of alumna; even in the past, some students were female! | |
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| Feb 5, 2018 at 6:30 | comment | added | Michael Rybkin | alumni is the plural form of alumnus, by the way. alumnus is singular. | |
| Feb 5, 2018 at 5:57 | comment | added | Varun Nair | That's not the same thing. 'Alumni' is someone who was a former student of an institution. The OP asked about a fellow student (currently pursuing his or her studies), not a former student. | |
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| Feb 5, 2018 at 5:44 | history | answered | bp. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |