Blonde vs. Blond

BigBadBear wrote:Firefox says that 'blonde' isn't a word.

Firefox also says "dialogue" isn't a word, so go figure.

I was never really sure which way it goes. I'd heard that blonde is feminine, blond is masculine(/general), but I rarely put it into practice. I usually just use "blonde."

I'm learning French right now, and at the end of adjectives, (for females) they add an 'e' at the end of it. I think that's right. So.

Blonde = female

Blond = male, or any undetermined sex.

Yeah.

-Jared

Well in french, it would be blond and blonde, because of the sex difference, but in America we do nothing of the kind.
I use blonde in most of my writing..
though the spell check on here says it's not right!

I use "blonde" regardless of what the actual rules are. I hate it when SpellCheck changes it from "blonde" to "blond". It annoys me, and that's why I rarely have SpellCheck on while I'm typing.

i think that we should not use either and just write

blawnde

ha! see what literature teachers think of us now!

(*says sorry that I am such a noncomformist*)

I use "blonde" because "blond," to me, just looks...naked.

I've actually always understood the difference as "blonde" being a noun, almost always female, and "blond" being the adjective.

"There's this blond guy in my class."
"I was never really into blondes until..."
"DUDE, hot blonde at twelve o'clock!"

Etc.