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Because. "He ain't full weight right now, account of his stomach bein' shrunk up." (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling, 1938) The expression can also be on account of; in fact, Rawlings also used it that way in her short story "Cocks Must Crow" (1939): "I almost lost him on account of I had changed."

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