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Altho vs Tho - What's the difference?

altho | tho |

As conjunctions the difference between altho and tho

is that altho is (informal|chiefly|us) while tho is (telegraph) abbreviation of though.

altho

English

Conjunction

(English Conjunctions)
  • (informal, chiefly, US)
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1984 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=George Will , quotee=John Adams, US President, 1780 , title= , chapter= , url= , genre=Political Science , publisher=Simon and Schuster , isbn=9780671427344 , page= , passage=The Usefull, the mechanic Arts, are those which We have occasion for in a young Country, as yet simple and not far advanced in Luxury, altho perhaps much too far for her Age and Character. }}

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    tho

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

    Article

    (head)
  • (label) The (plural form); those.

    • Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (label) Those; they.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Then; thereupon.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:

    • Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (label) When.

    • Etymology 3

    American English; Alteration of (though).

    Adverb

    (-)
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    • , year=2009 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=John Hough , title=Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Simon and Schuster , isbn=9781416589655 , page=121 , passage=I wonder now when I will find time to read it but it is a treasure anyway tho heavy in my knapsack, … }}

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