Re:NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students
by jmkb on Thursday August 16, 2018 @02:34PM
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In my experience, most people simply use "alum" for the singular, "alums" for the plural. Dropping the n, even!
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Re:NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students
by _emacsomancer_ on Thursday August 16, 2018 @03:00PM
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Presumably a combination of reanalysing "alumn-us", "alumn-i", etc. as "alum-nus", "alum-ni", etc. and a phonological preference/constraint against word-final /mnz/. And against /mn/ too: even English column is /ˈkɒləm/ and not /ˈkɒləmn/.