# Forebearance vs. Forbearance *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 08 May 2006* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Driscoll, David F *08 May 2006, 19:28* The Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law lists forebearance as an alternative for forbearance (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=forebearance). It is very odd though that the OED doesn't have it - is it an Americanism? David Driscoll ---