Comment by mjgoins 16 years ago http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=albeit&oldid=... 2 comments mjgoins Reply jherdman 16 years ago Interesting, but dictionary.com and m-w.com claim that it's a contraction of "al(though) be it". * http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/albeit * http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/albeit gruseom 16 years ago It's a mandatory contraction. You can't correctly write "all be it", just like you can't correctly write "where as".
jherdman 16 years ago Interesting, but dictionary.com and m-w.com claim that it's a contraction of "al(though) be it". * http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/albeit * http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/albeit
gruseom 16 years ago It's a mandatory contraction. You can't correctly write "all be it", just like you can't correctly write "where as".
Interesting, but dictionary.com and m-w.com claim that it's a contraction of "al(though) be it".
It's a mandatory contraction. You can't correctly write "all be it", just like you can't correctly write "where as".