Therefore and Therefor

Therefore and Therefor Therefore and Therefor Therefore and Therefor By Maeve Maddox After reading the sobeit/so be it article, Shirley in Berkeley has this to say: Sobeit sounds like legal-speak to me.   Working as a temp for a lawyer, I asked about their dropping the e from therefore and was told that it was legal usage: therefor meant for that, and with an e on the end, meant hence. therefor: adv. for that [thing]; for that, for it Ex. I will give you my pocket knife if you will give me your watch therefor. therefore: adv.consequently, hence Ex. I think, therefore I am. I was afraid; therefore I ran. Sure enough, lawyers have more use for the form therefor than the rest of us. respondent will not know how to defend against petitioners case because it does not know how petitioner is calculating the charges, and the justifications therefor. BOND ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF WATER STREET AND APPROPRIATING $170,000 THEREFOR As a noun therefore can mean a conclusion or inference: Let him first answer our Therefores, and wee will quickly answer his Wherefores. (example in OED) There is also a therefore symbol: In a mathematical proof, the therefore sign . . . is a symbol that is sometimes placed before a logical consequence, such as the conclusion of a syllogism. The symbol consists of three dots placed in an upright triangle. In reading, it is pronounced Therefore, †¦. It is Unicode character U+2234 and on some systems may be entered using ALT-8756 (the decimal version of 2234). While it is not generally used in formal writing, it is often used in mathematics and shorthand. Wikipedia Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Keep learning! Browse the Vocabulary category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below:70 "Home" Idioms and ExpressionsPeace of Mind and A Piece of One's MindCaptain vs. Master