But mostly I was happy I never had to utter the word “fiancé” ever again. During my yearlong engagement, I never managed to say the word without feeling, somehow, like a jerk. “It wasn’t a planned decision or anything,” said Kurt Soller, a 30-year-old editor at Bon Appétit, about his not using “fiancé” after he got engaged last winter. Cassia Skurecki, a photo producer, 29, who got engaged at the end of 2015, said the word fiancé “is kind of like when you go into a restaurant and can’t quite pronounce something on the menu. “To the extent that people are thinking ‘fiancé’ is a little twee, the new way of saying may not involve a word at all,” Dr. McWhorter said.

Source: New York Times October 06, 2016 02:03 UTC