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Re:NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students by alasdair_ on Thursday August 16, 2018 @05:36PM (#17778606)
If you insist on being pedantic, at least be correct.

"alumnum" is the correct Latin term for a singular person of undetermined sex.

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Re:NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students by DoofusOfDeath on Friday August 17, 2018 @02:09PM (#17784644)
My understanding of the issue comes from long-ago high-school Latin classes, and a few websites ([0], [1]).

If you have a more authoritative source of information I'd be grateful for a link.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alumnus

[1] https://www.grammarly.com/blog/alumna-alumnae-alumni-alumnus...

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