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TopicThe ticker on my local news says "Justin Bieber becomes brunette"...
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01/17/12 6:29:00 AM
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From: metroid composite | #004
Wait, you can't call males brunette?

News to me.


Not typically. From Wikipedia:


Brunette literally means "little brown-haired girl" or "young brown-haired woman", but in modern English usage it has lost the diminutive meaning and refers simply to any brown-haired girl or woman, or the associated hair color. Although brunet is the masculine version of the popular diminutive form, used to describe a little boy or young man with brown hair, the use of brunet is uncommon in English. One is more likely to say, of a man or boy, "He has brown hair" or "He is brown-haired", than to say, "He is a brunette", (or brunet).

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