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The pseudointellectual "whilst"
Dec 16 · 12 days ago · 👍 yvonne, oldernow, Yretek
Hey, thank you for the word, now I can look pseudointellectual when speaking English
The association of "whilst" with pseudointellectualism might just be a North American thing.
Does the same feeling about "while/whilst" carry over to "amid/amidst" and "among/amongst"?
Ultimately "whilst" derives from "while", via a process that turned nouns into adverbs via an "-s" suffix. The "-t" part of it is just random. "while" itself derives from the same Indo-European root that gives us the word "quiet", if I recall correctly.