Is it just me?

[blamebrampton]

At work, I am a one-woman accomplishment machine, who can build a story in a few hours, creates systems out of thin air and makes things work.[Poll #1669623]

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Re: I is in your lj poll, screwing up your percentages

[jad.livejournal.com]

*unrelated

Your icon, I must nit-pick: "blondes" is TECHNICALLY grammatically correct for both male and female in English (British or American or whatever version you want to use). I know this for a fact, because I myself use "blonde" for both gender pronouns, and have had years of people telling me it's incorrect, so I've done an insane amount of research on it and asked about 30 different literature professors with Masters and such and every reliable source I've encountered has said that, while it may be unusual in some cases, it's a preference thing--blonde is correct for balls or no balls!

Not trying to start an argument, just thought I'd mention it. Otherwise I much adore your icon, but in reading that I had to get out and defend my great pledge to non-conformity XD

Re: I is in your lj poll, screwing up your percentages

[kestrelsparhawk.livejournal.com]

I love your icon, which almost distracted me from responding to responding. I particularly liked "diffusing" a bomb. Don't get me started on "nauseous." I spent a bit of time surfing blond and blonde, and ended up far more confused than when I started. And the various dictionaries are not as helpful as one might like, even the British ones.

Origin of BLOND
Cambridge dict:
Anglo-French blunt, blound, masculine, blounde, feminine
First Known Use: 15th century

Ox Dict:
late 17th century (earlier as blond): from French, feminine of blond, from medieval Latin blundus 'yellow', perhaps from Germanic

World English dict: from Old French blond (fem blonde ), probably of Germanic origin; related to Late Latin blundus yellow, Italian biondo , Spanish blondo ]



Merriam-Webster: —spelled blond when used of a boy or man and often blonde when used of a girl or woman
Dictionary.com: —Usage note
The spelling blonde is still widely used for the noun that specifies a woman or girl with fair hair... Some people object to this as an unnecessary distinction, preferring blond for all persons.... As an adjective, the word is more usually spelled blond in reference to either sex. (ellipses for examples)
your dictionary: blond: esp. fem. form, but in Brit. usage preferred for all sense (?? may be typo)
Cambridge dict: blonde woman/a blond man
Oxford dict: The alternative spellings blonde and blond correspond to the feminine and masculine forms in French, but in English the distinction is not always made.... Thus, blond woman or blonde woman, blond man or blonde man are all used. [typically blonde since typically woman, always blond in America].
Collins: Blonde is the commoner form both as a noun and an adjective, and is more frequently used to refer to women than men. The less common variant blond occurs usually as an adjective, occasionally as a noun, and is the preferred form when referring to men with fair hair.
Your dictionary: the tendency being for North Americans to use the masculine in either case, and other English-speakers to use the feminine in either case.

http://www.answers.com/topic/blond has an interesting review of longer articles as well. And http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=blond does etymology well.