'Alum' Versus 'Alumni'

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'Alum' Versus 'Alumni' You'll remember that a couple of weeks ago, I had a piece from Neal Whitman about homecoming being called HoCo, and Neal was also kind enough to point out that although I wrote about the words alum and alumni in some of my Grammar Girl books, I've never covered them on the podcast or on the website, and this would be a good time of year to do so ... because alumni go to homecoming. Or should that be alums go to homecoming? ...Read More 10/14/2016 7:05am View           Words from Bookmaking October is an important month for book festivals—in Boston, Austin, Madison, Baton Rouge, and of course Frankfurt, Germany, which hosts the world’s oldest book festival. In honor of these book festivals, I want to delve a bit into the way that the language of books expanded the English vocabulary. ...Read More 10/14/2016 12:15am View           Beyond the Pale Today on Grammar Girl, we’re doing something new. We’re giving you a quiz. It’s about the phrase beyond the pale. You may know that beyond the pale describes something outside the limits of acceptable behavior. For example, wearing a see-through dress to a wedding might be beyond the pale. Or tossing your used coffee cup onto the sidewalk. ...Read More 10/13/2016 2:05pm View               FROM QUICK AND DIRTY TIPS Get More Grammar Girl Visit the website. Subscribe to the Grammar Girl podcast at iTunes or via RSS. Find Grammar Girl books, gear, and more at the Quick and Dirty Tips store. Have Questions? Search the Quick and Dirty Tips website. We have more than 600 articles about grammar and language. There's a good chance your question has already been covered.                 Best wishes, (and the Quick and Dirty Tips Team)                 Want more tips? If this was forwarded to you by a friend and you'd like to receive future tips, you can sign up here. Please don't use the subscribe/unsubscribe link at the bottom of the page because this will overwrite your friend's subscription. (If this came directly to you, you can use the subscribe/unsubscribe link below to manage your subscription.)                 FOLLOW ME

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