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• jherdman 16y 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 16y ago
  It's a mandatory contraction. You can't correctly write "all be it", just like you can't correctly write "where as".