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#16592 01/24/2001 4:29 PM

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this too shall pass

tsuwm

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tsuwm

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Joined: Apr 2000

Posts: 10,542
this too shall pass

here's what I think about 'whilst': in American it's considered an archaic form of while, in the sense of "in the meantime" or "sometimes"; in British it is considered to be a formal form of while... -- etymologies of whilst say from "whiles".

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