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Using "whilst" where "while" would work fine. Feels like the grammatical equivalent of plastic cutlery spray-painted chrome
It sounds smarter, cromulently.
I'm just like a fancy British guy fr
That means they can say the c--t word because it's just chummy friendly slang even when they're using it to talk about feeeeeeemales that enrage them like Anita Sarkeesian!
Still weird to me how British people would use "whilst," but don't use "gotten." I suppose they would feel the same for USians since "gotten" was already considered old-fashioned before being picked up by USians again.