robinturner | Forewarned is four-armed

I have finally finished "F". I wrote earlier that I didn't expect to be too long on the F-words, since there was a dearth of prefixes beginning with F. Of course I had forgotten about the good old Anglo-Saxon prefixes for- and fore-. In fact, most of these words didn't make it into the abridged dictionary because once you have an idea what "fore" means, you can usually work out words that start with it (though not always - take "forsake", for example). Some of the "fore" words are also pretty silly. As

maggie_lucy pointed out, "forewarned" is redundant, as there is no point ina warning that doesn't come before that which it warns of. Can you imagine being afterwarned? "Look out, you've just been hit by a brick!"