whilst = 'whether'

[Barbara Need]

This resonates with me, but I can't pin down where I might have seen
(and I'm pretty sure it was seen not heard) this. Perhaps in some
piece of British fiction from a dialect speaker--the form was
_whiles_. I can feel myself translating it as _if_.

Barbara

Barbara Need
Chicago

On 13 Mar 2010, at 9:15 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> 2009 Alex Jack http://kubrickfilms.tripod.com/id37.html : Film noir
> style
> always suggested that there was something, some force, whilst it be
> government conspiracy, criminal conspiracy or just "fate," that
> encompassed
> the protagonist.
>
> The author's email address appears to be at Utah State University.
> He writes
> clear academic prose.

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