BLOND/E
Wild Word Friday!
When I was a little girl I wanted so much to trade in my brown hair for BLOND. I was quite sure that BLOND hair would work something like a magic wand. Even if nothing else about me changed, being a BLONDE would suddenly morph me into a beauty, and I would be instantly popular and brilliant. Judging from how many people – mostly women but men, too – dye their hair BLOND, I wasn’t the only one with that dream. I’m old enough now that I don’t think much about hair color, except when I go to my beautician to have my gray whisked away with a subtle application of my normal color – brown.
I like to think about that very first person so many eons ago who was born with blue eyes and light hair. The first BLOND (man) or BLONDE (woman). I wonder what his or her parents thought. Were they afraid they’d been cursed? Was the child killed for that difference? We know that the ancestor words of BLOND/E are hundreds of years old and probably came to us from the Low Latin, blondus, which simply means yellow. We get the feminine form of the noun BLONDE from the French. BLOND is the masculine form.
What color is your hair? If you’re not already, did you ever want to be a BLOND/E or did you become one?
Blessings!
Sue
(Photograph of Marilyn Monroe from Wikipedia. Information from Webster’s New World Dictionary.)