But a single female graduate--at least if she too was once a Latinist--is
still an alumna (plural alumnae).
And insignia is originally a plural form.
Susan Holahan
on 12/12/08 4:20 PM, Max Richards at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> alumni plural, alumnus singular
>
> media plural, medium singular
>
> The little Latin I learned circa 1955 keeps me sensitized to these
> distinctions
> but I spose they are just lost to living english...
>
> criterion, criteria (Greek? I never did study)
> insignia - is it singular or plural?
>
> etc
>
> Max
>
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