altho

[ awl-thoh ]

/ ɔlˈðoʊ /

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an informal, simplified spelling of although.

QUIZZES

Are you aware how often people swap around “their,” “there,” and “they’re”? Prove you have more than a fair grasp over these commonly confused words.

Question 1 of 7

Which one of these commonly confused words can act as an adverb or a pronoun?

After this enters Lear with the dead Cordelia in his arms, altho he is more than eighty years old and ill.
Tolstoy on Shakespeare|Leo Tolstoy
Nor apparently did Shakespeare ever dream of it either, altho he had Plutarch's sage observations before him.
Tolstoy on Shakespeare|Leo Tolstoy
Other rich timber lands were taken up as mineral claims altho no trace of valuable ore existed within their confines.
The Everett massacre|Walker C. Smith
Clyde Gibbons, altho but seventeen years old, joined the Navy by falsifying his age.
The Everett massacre|Walker C. Smith

She upended herself again, and the chair, altho it wabbled distractingly, did not cast her off.
The Incubator Baby|Ellis Parker Butler