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Old 10-02-2003, 04:10 PM
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Originally posted by alsparky
LouisaMay,

Alumna is a single woman graduate, alumnae is more than one woman graduate. I have always hear the plural form pronounced "alumn-AY" - it's possible that it's a regional thing.

Allison
Might be regional, I've always heard it "alumnEE" There was a comment in another thread on this same thing and someone compared it to "knee" (sorry, I don't remember the whole thing).
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