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Unusual Conjunctions.



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sobeit

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Unusual Conjunctions. A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg



albeit PRONUNCIATION: (al-BEE-it) MEANING: conjunction: Even though; although.



ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English al be it (all though it be).



USAGE: "Demonstrations, albeit more peaceful ones, continued yesterday, with a few hundred students staging a sit-down protest."

Ho Ai Li; A Step Forward; The Straits Times (Singapore); Nov 8, 2008



A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. -Moshe Dayan, military leader and politician (1915-1981)





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