Week 3

Another week, another blog.
Last week as I was studying for our quiz in JOUR 420 (over everything in the Stylebook, A to F) I came across a topic for this week's blog entry.
The entry for "blond, blonde" in the Stylebook is "Use blond as a noun for males and as an adjective for all applications: She has blond hair. Use blonde as a noun for females."
Truthfully, this whole entry was surprising for me. I'll admit that I have always been a terrible speller, but I have never even considered that there were two ways to spell blonde/blond. Every time I need to write the word, I spell it without an 'e' on the end.
To think that if I'm talking about a boy with blond hair, I call him a blond but if I'm talking about a girl with blond hair, she is a blonde reminds me of what I learned in my high school French class- that in most cases the masculine form is without an 'e' and the feminine form is with one. I never realized that we had a bit of this in the English language as well.

Maybe I'm the only person who didn't know this until now, and if that is the case, I'll just blame it on my hair color. And yes, I'm a blonde.

Candace