[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] When do we use "whilst" as opposed to "while"?

Sridhar Dhanapalan sridhar at dhanapalan.com
Sun Sep 3 23:28:44 BST 2006


On Monday 04 September 2006 07:40, Matt Sicker <boards at gmail.com> wrote:
> Whilst is so old-school. :P

It's meant to be more formal version of 'while'. I can remove it if that suits 
people here.

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