A girl was visiting her blonde friend and noticed she had acquired two new dogs, and asked her what their names were. The blonde responded by saying that one was named Rolex and one was named Timex.

Her friend said, „Whoever heard of someone naming dogs like that?”

Whereupon the blonde responded, „What else you gonna name watch dogs?”

În limba engleză, substantivele nu se declină după gen, cum se întâmplă în alte limbi, precum româna.

Dar nu a fost dintotdeauna aşa. Până pe la 1200, şi în engleză existau substantive feminine şi masculine.

Una dintre rămăşiţe este referitoare la blonzi. Şi e o treabă destul de încâlcită. Nici măcar specialiştii nu se pun întru totul de acord.

The Associated Press Stylebook recomandă: „Folosiţi blond ca substantiv pentru bărbaţi şi ca adjectiv pentru toate situaţiile: She has blond hair. Folosiţi blonde ca substantiv pentru femei.”

Garner’s Modern American Usage arată că „blond” este forma preferată în toate sensurile de adjectiv în engleza americană.

Oxford English Dictionary vine cu reversul medaliei: „în Marea Britanie, forma blonde este în prezent preferată în toate sensurile.”

În practică, mulţi folosesc „blonde” pentru feminin şi „blond” pentru masculin, atât pentru substantiv, cât şi pentru adjectiv.

Kate, the blonde, is at her friend’s house. It starts to rain very heavily. Her friend tells her to spend the night at her house and go home the next day. When she hears this, Kate rushes out the door and comes back a while later totally drenched and carrying a small shopping bag.

Her friend asks „Where did you run off to?”

„I went home to get my pajamas!”

A blonde went into her local hardware store and bought two instant barbecues – the ones with the pictures of succulent foods on the lid.

The next day, she returned one of these to the customer service desk at the store complaining that there was no food inside! The assistant patiently told her that these were just barbecue trays and that the food was not supplied with them.

„Oh dear” said the blonde, „I’d better take the other one out of the freezer then!”

An executive was interviewing a young blonde for a position in his company. He wanted to find out something about her personality so he asked, „If you could have a conversation with anyone, living or dead, who would it be?”

The blonde quickly responded, „The living one.”

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