Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 13:23:35 -0500

From: Mark Mandel Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM

Subject: Re: Samuel Johnson's birthday -Reply



Dennis Baron debaron[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UIUC.EDU 0918.0544

Hence we should practice forebearance?





Strike the first "e". This is

"for-" ~= "away, destroyed", as in "forgive", "forget", "forfend",

archaic "fordo";

not

"fore-" ~= "before, in front", as in "foresee", "forehead",

"forewarned", and indeed "before".



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