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amongst

Just got offed, Sunday, 9 September 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link

americans use amongst

lxy, Sunday, 9 September 2007 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link

two months pass...

WHILST

lxy, Sunday, 11 November 2007 00:33 (sixteen years ago) link

four months pass...
four years pass...

The usage of whilst is chiefly British. For example, the BBC World Service website “Learning English”, in their “Ask about English” section, uses the word whilst when explaining the usage of “while and whereas”.
In American English and Canadian English, whilst is considered to be pretentious or archaic.

buzza, Sunday, 23 December 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link

it was chiefly British until maybe 10 or 15 years ago, but due to the widespread influx of British English into North America from TV and internet sites like Wikipedia and, well, ILX, "whilst" is now commonplace in the US too.

Lee626, Sunday, 23 December 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link


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