I'm a 21 year-old queer, pagan Latina going to college to study Russian in Chicago.
Pronouns are she/her.

• almighty
• almost
• alone
• already
• also
• altogether
• always

According to etymonline, every single one of these words came from adding “all” to an already existing word and shortening it. It’s gotten to the point that words like “also” and “alone” aren’t commonly recognized as coming from “all +____”. 

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   In Only Revolutions, Danielewski does that (“allone” instead...“alone” for example). I...

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