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Fiancée vs. Fiancé

Call me clueless... but I did not know this til this evening:
A man who is engaged to be married is called his partner's fiancé; a woman similarly engaged is called her partner's fiancée. These words are pronounced identically in English; the separate feminine form exists because of the inflectional morphology of grammatical gender in French, where the term originated.
Read it on wikipedia

I know, a pathetic excuse for a blog post but wouldn't you rather read something than nothing?

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