It’s generally said that nouns do not have gender in the English language. This is not entirely true. This post serves as a public service announcement in the spirit of my obsessive attachment to grammar and spelling.

We borrowed an awful lot of words from the French. And some of those–those used as adjectives to describe people–have gender. Here are some things to remember:

I am blonde. My fiance is blond. I am his fiancee.

Thanks and godspeed.