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[Laurence Horn]

At 3:07 PM -0500 3/3/05, sagehen wrote:
>  >I've just heard a character on CSI: NY say for[beid] for "forbade." O,
>>tempora! O, mores!
>
>>-Wilson
>~~~~~~~~~
>Ho! At least the right word was in the script.  Seems that most people
>nowadays don't even know the form, much less to say "forBAD."  I hear
>"forbid" for both present & past more often than not.
>AM

I'm still trying to figure out the past tense of "forgo".  (And no,
"decided to forgo" technically doesn't count.)

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