1329: Feminine as Neutral Aug 1, 2018

A fiancé(e) may be a special someone, but linguistically it is special as well. Most of the time in English, when there is an option for a word to be either masculine or feminine, the option will be masculine, as has been discussed here before and is evident in the ongoing use of words like 'actor'. However, both fiancé and fiancée (masculine and feminine respectively) are pronounced the same in English, and the pronunciation is in-line with the French pronunciation for the French form. This could be a matter of English readers being confused by the accent mark, or luck, but this option is certainly rarer. This is also true of words like 'blond(e)' which takes the French feminine pronunciation, but that word has existed in English for 400-odd years before 'fiancé(e)'.
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