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The term alumni is used in conjunction with either men's colleges, a male group of students, or a mixed group of students: In accordance with the rules of grammar governing the inflexion of nouns in the Romance languages, the masculine plural alumni is correctly used for groups composed of both sexes: the alumni of Princeton University. [14]
The plural may be used to emphasise the plurality of the attribute, especially in British English but very rarely in American English: a careers advisor, a languages expert. The plural is also more common with irregular plurals for various attributions: women killers are women who kill, whereas woman killers are those who kill women.
It now says "An alumnus (plural alumni), according to the American Heritage Dictionary, is "a graduate of a school, college, or university".[1] " This supports the idea that a non-graduating alumni is a contradiction in terms = ChrisC — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.244.210.183 19:15, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
The sentences "the plural is alumni" and "the plural is alumnae" are sloppy, choppy, and not very clear. I would like to know the exact issues you have with this intro: An alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine) is a person who has attended or is a graduate of an educational institution.
Examples are stewardi (supposed plural of stewardess) and Elvi (as a plural for Elvis imitators). The Toyota corporation has determined that their Prius model should have the plural form Prii, even though the Latin word prius has a plural priora, the Lada Priora having prior claim to that name—though the common plural is "Priuses".
The only thing missing from this well-told tale is that "beeves" was the longtime plural of "beef," and that "beeve," or a singular "beef cattle," is a back formation of that plural.
The plural (sometimes abbreviated as pl., pl, or PL), in many languages, is one of the values of the grammatical category of number.
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