Tom, please don't assume and don't make universal claims. VS-) On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote: > > "Whilst" is British. Nobody says it in USA. I assume it means "while" not= > "whether." ------------------------------------------------------------ The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org