'albeit'

[Isaac Bonewits]

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Gentlemen and Ladies, I must insert a small, albeit pretentious, note
into this discussion that I, too, have used this word in writing and
speech for forty years, usually in formal or academic circumstances.

I suspect that it's a verbal pattern I picked up from British
academic writers of the 1950s and 1960s (most of whom would have
learned it in the 1920s and 1930s). Nonetheless, most of my American
speaking readers and audiences don't seem to have any trouble
understanding me when I use it.

Perhaps the most tenacious of linguistic fossils are to be found in
the communications of academic and literary fossils, before they die
off and allow new paradigms to bloom...

cheers,
Isaac Bonewits

</unlurk>

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