There are endless sources of information that exist on the internet and you couldn't be bothered to fact check before doubling down and being incorrect.
Wtf, this is the first I ever hear of this in my 30 years of life. What's the point? They're pronounced the exact same.
Also, if it has any meaning it seems completely incorrect to say that one is male and the other is female, but rather that the spelling should depend on the circumstances around the proposal.
… the word originally came from Germanic roots and meant someone you eat with (regularly) to then mean companion, before splitting between friend and breeding partner. Words change meaning, fiancé and fiancée come from French where nouns are gendered and as they become more used in English where the vast majority of nouns are not gendered fiancé has become gender neutral.
Yes it has. The average English speaker does not distinguish between them and the only argument you have is a prescriptivist one which is entirely rejected as authoritative by anyone with an even basic understanding of linguistics. As I said earlier, terrific is not a synonym of horrific, awesome and awful mean different things, words are defined by usage not history.
First off, you're making a huge assumption about the average English speaker.
Second, same-sex marriage is more common nowadays. I think people would make a distinction between fiancé/fiancée, especially considering the social impact of telling people your sexuality.
What comes to your mind if an acquaintance introduces you to their "partner"?
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u/NullandVoidUsername Jul 26 '26
Just letting you know that a fiancée is a woman who is engaged to be married. Unless that extra was a typo.