English today does not always shine. So how on earth has the word "whilst" become so popular the past few years? Shakespeare and the King James Bible aside, I never remember seeing anything other than "while", until relatively recently.
My first encounter of the word "whilst" certainly raised my mental eyebrow. Is this a "whilst" I see before me? Pray, what next? Forsooth? Perchance? Methinks?
Perhaps these "whilsts" are tossed in in order to adorn the text, in a desperate bid to hide the fact that the rest of the text is so sub-par.
All of these "whilsts" in the midst of otherwise underwhelming prose remind me of the guy who orders a double cheeseburger, fries and a diet coke.
Meanwhilst...
:-)
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