EDITOR@WORK: alumni vs. alumnus

FOUND ONLINE: She is a 2015 CRC Alumni.

She's a CRC alumna (female) or alumnus (generic). Alumni is plural.

FOUND ON TWITTER: Hurricane Ian closes in on Florida, targets Gulf Coast for landfall

Edit: Hurricane Ian closes in on Gulf Coast of Florida

FOUND ONLINE: A dazzling spiral galaxy has been captured in "unprecedented detail" in a new photo released by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

I can't imagine the telescope actually releasing the photo. I suspect that NASA would have to do that.

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FOUND ONLINE: Ms Chastain’s column, which was published on World Net Daily, claimed the organisation was touting Ms Ocasio-Cortez as a successful Girl Scout alumni.

I've written about this before. Alumni is the plural of alumnus (male) and alumna (female). In this case, AOC is an alumna.

MORE: The plural of alumna is alumnae.

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