Michael Steele and Ted Williams

What do these two recent media stars have in common, here in January of 2011?

Can you spell “boring”?

The good news is that both will very soon disappear from the public mind share never to return.

However, we are stuck with Dr. Phil indefinitely, as far as I can tell.

How to remember how to spell therefore vs therefor

If you’re like me, you forget if therefore has the letter e at the end.

Yes, it does. But the word therefor without the e also exists. Therefor is an ancient word that simply means “for” or “for that purpose”. Its current use is mostly in legal documents.

So it’s easy to remember that when it means for, it ends in for.

Therefore, when you mean therefore, end it in fore.