Seen of Facebook: "Proud to be an _alumni_ [of UC Davis]!" [NT]

Thu Sep 15 05:25:47 UTC 2011

You're fighting a losing battle. "An alumni" is very common. Ref. also "a bacteria." It is amazingly difficult (for me, anyway) to talk about a bacterium.

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

On Sep 14, 2011, at 9:47 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> :-(
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