Tag: forgo forego homonyms

What is the difference between “forgo” and “forego”? Are these just alternate spellings of the same word? No, these are words with distinctly different meanings. And sometimes devilishly hard to tell apart. So let’s fix that! To forego (with an “e”) means, literally, to “go before”. That telltale syllable “fore” is our clue: It normally…