Re: OT: terms for people with different hair colours

>>I've heard plenty of red-haired males called "redheads".  And I've
been called a brunet.  But in general distinguishing people by hair
color does seem to be done more with females, probably because they're
more likely to have long hair and therefore to have their hair color
visually dominant.<<

Or perhaps it's because women are more likely to be judged for their
appearance than men are. Just sayin'.
Incidentally, I've never seen the term "brunet" (the masculine of
"brunette"?). That's a new one to me. I can't even imagine how it would
pronounced in English (probably not the way such a word would be pronounced
in French, non? I also can't recall seeing "brunet" in French class, but
then again, that was quite awhile ago).

Noelle

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