English [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ]

Likely from false assumptions about albeit, replacing it with they. The Oxford English Dictionary explains albeit as being from “all be it (that)” or in full “all though it be that”. Originally, therefore, the impersonal “it” should have remained unchanged even when “albeit” followed a plural noun (and still today albeit is widely accepted due to lack of concise alternative).

Pronunciation [ edit ]

Conjunction [ edit ]

albethey