Timeline for Difference between cause of/for and reason for/of

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Nov 26, 2016 at 21:37	answer	added	Peter		timeline score: 3
Oct 15, 2016 at 14:50	comment	added	FumbleFingers		They're usually pretty much interchangeable, but personally I think *the cause of* something more strongly implies the actual agent, where *the reason for* it might simply be something making it more likely that the agent would do whatever it was. That's why I'd tend to choose *reason for* in the second example, but it's a bad question if it implies that *cause of* is somehow "incorrect" (it's actually fine). Note that cause for complaint is something of an established idiom (You have no cause for disagreement / disagreeing, for example, isn't very idiomatic).
Oct 15, 2016 at 12:37	history	edited	ColleenV	CC BY-SA 3.0	spelling, punctuation, formatting, tags
Oct 15, 2016 at 12:33	review	First posts
Oct 15, 2016 at 13:46
Oct 15, 2016 at 12:32	history	asked	Nadiene	CC BY-SA 3.0