forbade
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- forbad (see usage note)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /fəˈbæd/, /fəˈbeɪd/, /fɔ-/
- (US) IPA(key): /fəɹˈbeɪd/, /foɹˈbeɪd/, /-ˈbæd/
- Rhymes: -æd, -eɪd
Verb
[edit]forbade
Usage notes
[edit]- Sometime around the late 1780s, the spelling forbade (which had been on the upswing since the start of that century, while forbad was becoming less common) overtook forbad,[1] and forbade is now the usual spelling throughout contemporary English, about thirty times more common than forbad.[2] The pronunciation with /beɪd/ is also more common than the pronunciation with /bæd/.