> As recently as ten years ago, I think, 'albeit' was as dead as a doornail
> in English. I never encountered it at all except in texts written a long
> time ago
Well, it occurs in Tom Lehrer's "Fight Fiercely Harvard": ...Albeit
they possess the might, nonetheless we have the will!" "Hurl that spheroid
down the field", and all that.
Dr. David L. White