politics

[andrea-lou]

who is the only british prime minister to marry a divorcee

[slaney]

Margaret Thatcher

[kev100]

The milk snatcher who took milk from children

[FoxLee]

That was a bit of a trick question as you used the feminine form of divorcee implying that the p.m. was a man.

[Clayhead]

How would you spell the male form of divorcee?

[FoxLee]

With only one 'e' but with an accent on it (so you could tell it apart from the word divorce) It's similar to fiance and fiancee

[slaney]

I checked this first as I was unsure about the double "e".
In English the usage appears to use this form for both male and female, whereas in French is as above.

[FoxLee]

In view of your comment, I checked in my Collins dictionary and it definitely states "divorce� - a man who has been divorced" "divorcee� - a person, especially a woman, who has been divorced".

[andrea-lou]

hi, i'm stuck on this, i've been through a list of pm's online and nothing is mentioned about anybody marrying a divorcee. i would take the question to mean a male pm
thanks for interest

[slaney]

Sorry I should have given references earlier... Chambers on line and my Shorter Oxford both define divorcee as a divorced person . In some newspaper articles Dennis Thatcher was described as as a divorcee.
It's not always easy to put in the acute accent in English text ..
I would go with Margaret Thatcher.