How come some people spell blonde with an 'e' and others dont? Which one is right?

Answer 1

well u must be aware of two english accent-american and british..well british speaks blonde adding e...while american do not do so...

Answer 2

The word comes from French. In French, adjectives often have different forms for the masculine and feminine. A guy is called "blond", a gal is "blonde". English speakers who are aware of this fact will often distinguish between male and female by means of the final "e". Since not everyone knows French, we aren't consistent about it. Webster's Collegiate Dictionary says that "blond" and "blonde" are equal variants, meaning that they're both perfectly correct in English.

P.S. There's no significant difference between American and British English here. I used Google to see if there was a correlation between either "blonde" or "blond" and "glamor" or "glamour", where "glamour" is the British spelling. The results were:

blond glamor - 256,000 hits
blond glamour - 270,000 hits
blonde glamor - 230,000 hits
blonde glamour - 261,000 hits

Answer 3

The original dictionary spelling is blonde. However american language has changed the spelling of english words here and there to suit the culture. Another example is centre which is spelt in america as center.

Answer 4

Blonde is the only English adjective that distinguishes gender. Males are always "blond". But distinguishing gender is a weird thing for English adjectives to do so I guess people decided they shouldn't.

Answer 5

this is because the words have different meanings

Blonde means-. a woman or girl with blond hair.

Blond means-. a golden or flaxen color

if u don't believe me look it up in the dictionary

Answer 6

"Blond" is from O.Fr. blont, from M.L. adj. blundus "yellow"
The word was reintroduced into Eng. 17c. from Fr., and was until recently still felt as Fr., hence "blonde" for females...

Answer 7

well british speaks blonde adding e...while american do not do so... thats y