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Thread #125865   Message #2792226
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
19-Dec-09 - 04:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: except/accept- insure/ensure,,,etc.
Subject: RE: BS: except/accept- insure/ensure,,,etc.
Somebody way upstairs there (Jim Dixon?) wuz mentioning that there wuz a diffruns between forgo and forego. (OK, I'll forgo the dialect). Now who says I am wrong? I damn well ain't, or my Oxford (dictionary, not shoe) is wrong.

The entry (skipping origins and pronounciations)-
forgo, forego
1. to go away, go past, pass away
2. to go by, pass over, to leave alone or undone, neglect, overlook, slight
3. to avoid, elude. b. to overreach, deceive
4. to go from, forsake, leave
5. to abstain or refrain from
6. to abstain from, go without, deny to oneself; to let go or pass, omit to take or use; to give up, part with, relinquish, renounce, resign.
7. to go without (compulsorily), to be without; to miss, lack. b. to let go (involuntarily), lose, forfeit
8. (only in pa pple): exhausted with going, wearied, faint. also faint with emotion

Forgoer, one who forgos (something); 1828 Webster, foregoer one who forbears to enjoy; foregone, forborne to be possessed or enjoyed.

Got all that??