Re: OT: terms for people with different hair colours
| From: | Rebecca Bettencourt <beckiergb@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 20, 2008, 5:16 |
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On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Matthew Turnbull <ave.jor@...> wrote:
> OK, so English has, as I understand it the following
> Red hair : a red-head
> Brown hair : a brunette
> Blond hair : a blond
> Grey hair : a blue hair
> Black hair : ???? (does English have a word for this)
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> I also seem to notice that all of these words are distinctly female, you
> would say a guy was red-headed, but not a red-head (most of the time). And I
> can't imagine calling a guy a brunette.
I've heard guys called redheads.
A blonde-haired female is called a blonde, but a blond-haired guy is
called a blond.
A brown-haired female is called a brunette, but a brown-haired guy is
called a brunet.
In all cases the feminine term is much more common. I wonder why that is.
I too have always wondered if English has a word for someone with black hair.
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