whilst = 'whether'

[Herb Stahlke]

I prefer the dative plural form.

Herb

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> "Whilst" is British.  Nobody says it in USA.  I assume it means "while" not=
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>> This resonates with me=2C 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_.
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>> Barbara Need
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>> On 13 Mar 2010=2C at 9:15 AM=2C Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>> > 2009 Alex Jack http://kubrickfilms.tripod.com/id37.html : Film noir
>> > style
>> > always suggested that there was something=2C some force=2C whilst it be
>> > government conspiracy=2C criminal conspiracy or just "fate=2C" that
>> > encompassed
>> > the protagonist.
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>> > The author's email address appears to be at Utah State University.
>> > He writes
>> > clear academic prose.
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