'albeit'

[Leo A. Connolly]

> Brian M. Scott wrote:

>> I'm 53, and I've been using it all my life.  It's true that I originally
>> acquired it from reading and pronounced it to myself as 'all-bite', but I
>> straightened that out before I was 12.  I've always considered it a
>> perfectly normal word in a formal register, both in writing and in
>> speech.

Steve Gustafson wrote:

> The revival of "albeit" is less peculiar than the even stranger revival of
> "anent," which says nothing that "about" doesn't cover.  I first thought it
> was an archaism used as a joke, but it seems to have crept back into
> apparently serious contexts, and now is more common than I suspect it ever
> was in the past.

I know that Fowler mentions the "revival" of _anent_, but since I (a
native english speaker with four university degrees) do not know what it
means, I hesitate to say that it's actually been revived.  Surely I'm
not along on the list here?

Leo Connolly