Forebearance vs. Forbearance

Driscoll, David F · 08 May 2006, 19:28 · from 2006-May.txt.gz

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From: driscoll at Grinnell.EDU (Driscoll, David F)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 14:28:02 -0500
Subject: (urth) Forebearance vs. Forbearance
Message-ID: <F0AB3BE8FB3BC04690F103FA14F4DA1A27741A at email.grinnell.edu>

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

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