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My dear Richard,
You are right on both scores and, yet, mislead.
When old students of our beloved institutions wish7desire
to regurgitate nostalgia, the plural serves to attain common
sentiments, irrespective of former bullyism or elitism; the
fraternity we were despite sundry drawbacks.
And btw my friend how did your dictionary become wheather beaten?
Did you forgot it on the beach after sourjourning with an ex/old alumna?
Alfred
>From: Victor Rangel-Ribeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!"
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>To: richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"Goa's premiere mailing list, estb.
>1994!" <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Goanet] Majority wins?
>Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:11:26 -0700 (PDT)
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>richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Dear Richard,
> An "alumnus" is a male former student, an "alumna" is a female former
>student, and alumni is the commonly accepted plural form.
> The plural form cannot be used when just one former student is meant.
> Regards,
> Victor
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>Among today"s 21/10/2006 posts three of the Goanetters used the form,
>"alumni" to mean a single ex-student. I had to rush to my weatherbeaten
>dictionary to check upon the word and I found that "alumnus" is singular of
>"alumni". There was however one Goanetter, and that was Selma who used it
>correctly according to the dictionary.
>Perhaps the plural can also be used with a singular meaning? Just asking.
>Please dont mind.Have a nice day!
>Richard Cabral
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