Orthographic, morphological, and semantic digression: Somebody wrote #Foregoing the topic of free will at this time ---*----- Historically, there are two similar but distinct prefixes in English, "fore-" and "for-". "Fore-", with an "e", means roughly 'before, ahead, in front of', as in "forebears", 'ancestors', "foresee" 'know in advance', "foretell" 'predict'. In nouns, like "forebears", it often takes the main accent of the word. "For-", with no "e", means something like 'away' or 'gone' and is often much more metaphorical than "fore-", as in "forget" (the memory is gone), "forgive" (the injury is gone), "forgo" (do without). It never takes main accent. This is "forgo", with no "e". "Forego" would mean 'to go out ahead, to be (somewhere) earlier'. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel