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This week's theme Unusual Conjunctions. This week's words argal sobeit whencesoever albeit forwhy Discuss Feedback RSS/XML 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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