{"id":5756,"date":"2011-06-23T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=5756"},"modified":"2011-11-08T21:44:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:44:28","slug":"where-the-word-blond-comes-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/where-the-word-blond-comes-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Word &#8220;Blond&#8221; Comes From"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/where-blond-comes-from.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5757\" title=\"where-blond-comes-from\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/where-blond-comes-from.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/where-blond-comes-from.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/where-blond-comes-from-340x231.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p>The word blond derives from the Old French word \u201cblund\u201d, meaning literally \u201ca color midway between golden and light chestnut\u201d.\u00a0 \u201cBlund\u201d then is typically thought to have come from the Latin word \u201cblundus\u201d, which was a vulgar pronunciation of the Latin \u201cflavus\u201d, which means \u201cyellow\u201d.\u00a0 The French origin of the word \u201cblond\u201d is how we get the added \u201ce\u201d on the end when using the feminine form of blond.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Blond vs Blonde\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/the-words-blond-and-  blonde-are-not-wholly-synonymous\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why the Words Blond and Blonde are not Wholly Synonymous<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## The word blond derives from the Old French word \u201cblund\u201d, meaning literally \u201ca color midway between golden and light chestnut\u201d.\u00a0 \u201cBlund\u201d then is typically thought to have come from the Latin word \u201cblundus\u201d, which was a vulgar pronunciation of the Latin \u201cflavus\u201d, which means \u201cyellow\u201d.\u00a0 The French origin of the word \u201cblond\u201d is how we get the added \u201ce\u201d [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1045],"class_list":["post-5756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-blond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5759,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions\/5759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}