>Actually, following French where male grammatical gender is used when the actual gender of the referent is unknown, fiancé is also the generic term. I did not

>Actually, following French where male grammatical gender is used when the actual gender of the referent is unknown, fiancé is also the generic term. I did not know this, thanks. >Words with semantic, but not grammatical, gender are not uncommon in English which lacks grammatical gender. Are you referring to words like actor vs. actress?