Word: altho
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...David Carr (11:04 p.m.) Ok! #nerdprom rocked nicely! Altho I think that wanda sykes may have fired up the culture wars with her last five minutes. Kinda tangy
...spare me, a man who has travelled the world three times over all these ridiculous sentiments, get on with the humping, you will eventually come to a stage when you fill like reproducing (if you are able) and settling down perhaps with one woman, altho these days that seems a rarity amongst the younger...
...applaud your triumph with the Publick and gladly express the Esteem that must naturally flow from one Man of the People to another. There is more on my Mind than Salutations. "Experience should teach us wisdom," I once told Congress. Altho' that body remains steadfastly untutored, I have better hope of you. May not, after all, there be things the Young Peanut can learn from the Old Hickory...
...John A. Jones in the first reference, plain Jones will suffice in later references"), but in the New York Times, once a general always a general. And no paper cares to folo the trail blazed by the Chicago Tribune into a virgin land of simplified spelling: altho, thru, sirup, burocracy...
Under the triumvirate's direction, the paper slowly changed its flamboyant ways. The Trib threw out most of the phonetic spelling of which McCormick had been so fond-"frate," "photograf," "soder"-leaving only a few traces, e.g., "altho." The "policy" stories began to fade away, and the news got straighter play. When Chicago played host to Britain's Queen Elizabeth six months ago, no one gave her a more cordial reception than the once rabidly Anglophobic Tribune. The Trib's own news-column byliners and the editorial page at times even find themselves in disagreement...