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The word comes from Latin, meaning nurslings, pupils or foster children, derived from alere "to nourish". [1] The term is not synonymous with "graduates": people can be alumni without graduating, e.g. Burt Reynolds was an alumnus of Florida State University but did not graduate. The term is sometimes used to refer to former employees, former ...
Some English words of Latin origin do not commonly take the Latin plural, but rather the regular English plurals in -(e)s: campus, bonus, and anus; while others regularly use the Latin forms: radius (radii) and alumnus (alumni). Still others may use either: corpus (corpora or corpuses), formula (formulae in technical contexts, formulas ...
The first and only one that is still in business, Alumni Football USA, did their first game in 1984 and has done over 1300 games as of November 2024. Dr. R. L. "Bob" Cazet, President and Founder of Alumni Football USA, was the first person to see the potential of full-contact alumni football as a business.
As teens develop new slang each generation, parents may need the help of linguists to understand the terms. Experts say the new terminology appears to cover the same preoccupations.
The alumni game featured 30 former NHL players, with the NHL alumni team beating the Panthers alumni team 15-11 in a game that featured two 30-minute periods and a running clock.
The nickname is a back-formation from the school's yell, "wa-hoo-wa." Official University of Virginia sports documents explain that Washington and Lee baseball fans first called University of Virginia players "a bunch of rowdy Wahoos," and used the "Wahoowa" yell as a form of derision during the in-state baseball rivalry in the 1890s, presumably after hearing them yell or sing "wa-hoo-wa."