Blonde vs Blond

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What do you write/type?

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i use BLONDE even though im american, and i have blonde hair!
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This is another one of those moments when americans prove they can't speak their own native tongue (ok, not all of them, but the general majority) and simplify the original british Blonde into Blond. Same as in colour/color. Firefox suggests blond because you probably have it set on something called "US English".

Brits ftw!
 
I always thought of using it kind of like a french conjugation

blond for guys
blonde for girls
 
QUOTE said:
blond |bländ|
adjective
(of hair) fair or pale yellow : short-cropped blond hair | her hair was dyed blond.
• (of a person) having hair of a fair or pale yellow color : a slim blond woman.
• (of a person) having fair hair and a light complexion, typically regarded as a racial characteristic.
• (of wood and other substances) light in color or tone : a New York office full of blond wood.
noun
a person with fair hair and skin.
DERIVATIVES
blondish adjective
blondness |?bl?n(d)n?s| noun
USAGE The spellings blonde and blond correspond to the feminine and masculine forms in French. Although the distinction is usually retained in Britain, American usage since the 1970s has generally preferred the gender-neutral blond. The adjective blonde may still refer to a woman’s (but not a man’s) hair color, though use of the noun risks offense ( : See that blonde over there?): the offense arises from the fact that the color of hair is not the person. The adjective applied to inanimate objects (wood, beer) is typically spelled blond.
blonde |bländ| |bl?nd| |bl?nd|
adjective
(of a woman or a woman's hair) blond.
noun
a blond-haired woman.
ORIGIN late 17th cent. (earlier as blond): from French, feminine of blond.
USAGE See usage at blond .
 

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