Who uses 'whilst ' in America

[dalton99a]

[Chasstev365]

1. Imagine Fox, aka Goebellsvision if Kerry, Obama, Biden or Harris had used the word "Whilst?"

[leftstreet]

2. Some young intern trying to look educated

...whilst proving Trump doesn't scribe his own tweets

[William Seger]

18. Yeah, and the Random Capitalization is a bit overdone

[dalton99a]

28. +1. Archive of his previous posts shows 819 for "while" and 0 for "whilst"

[Solly Mack]

3. He probably picked it up from his mother. Same as his often-used phrase, "high-quality people".

[Tanuki]

16. I've heard him pronounce "airplane" as "aeroplane,"

and always assumed it was something he picked up unconsciously from his Scottish mum.

[Solly Mack]

17. He appears to have sought approval from his father, but his mother seems to have had

a lot of influence on him.

[OC375]

4. AI co-author.

[wnylib]

34. The word "whilst" is a Britishism.

[OC375]

36. Yes, it is.

AI does weird things with language sometimes. Having to change "weird" words after AI composes something is not uncommon at all. I think the guy spits stuff into an AI of some sort and it puts his words into writing for his posts.

[wnylib]

37. AI sounds about right.

[NewHendoLib]

5. covfefe - that's it.

[pat_k]

6. "nothing even close to this...was even thought of for the People's House"

For GOOD F-ing reason you psychopath.

You turned "The People's House" into a ruin and a forum for savage, brutal, and often bloody violence no child in America should be exposed to. And you offer the world this, as a "celebration" of America?

I have no words.

[Jack Valentino]

7. Are you saying he picked up a new word (for him)??

I myself may have used it in the past, although extremely rarely---
but I would congratulate Donald upon expanding his vocabulary in this instance!!!

(Mostly his stock of words is degrading in the other direction....)

[Retrograde]

8. I sometimes do, but I'm pretentious at times (n/t)

[mwmisses4289]

9. Several of my friends and i do occassionally.

Of course, most of us are well read, theatre, science, music and art nerds, so not sure that means anything about our using it.

[Celerity]

10. British & British Commonwealth-raised and/or educated people? Certainly not that plonker Trump.

[obamanut2012]

11. I do, but I doubt he does

[niyad]

12. I want a list of all those other fights. Oh, wait a minute. Teddy

Roosevelt boxed, and loved to challenge people. A fact that had to be presented to the intellectually incurious/illiterate orange tub of diseased flab and make-up. But, hey, since you brought it up, oh mighty one, perfect physical specimen that you are, let us see YOU in the ring, with a professional boxer of my choosing.

[Raine1967]

31. I was going to ask the same thing.

Thanks for the example. I am so sick of him.

[CTyankee]

13. Of course not. It's a British term, IIRC. I'm not British.

[niyad]

15. But there are many words in common usage in American english that

are foreign, and yet commonly used. Pizza comes immediately to mind.

[CTyankee]

23. Pizza is pizza and Italian. Whilest is a British variation of a term in English.

That's the way I see it. No biggie.

[obamanut2012]

26. I'm American and I use it

But, no way Trump does.

[CTyankee]

29. It's actually a nice word. I like it!

Hubby would roll his eyes if I started using it tho...

[obamanut2012]

30. In all honesty, I started using it in high school

And started using a fountain pen, after I watched Brideshead Revisited. I rarely speak it, but us eit in writing a decent amount.

[niyad]

14. It depends on what I am writing, or with whom I am speaking.

[William Seger]

19. Glorification of violence

... is NOT "one of the Most Entertaining Nights in American History" to evolved humans.

[SocialDemocrat61]

20. The Captain

[Swede]

21. I'll try. Trump shat himself whilst posting this nonsense.

[niyad]

22. !!!

[COL Mustard]

24. Well played, Swede!

You win the thread!

[Seeking Serenity]

25. I do. I apologise for nothing.

[underpants]

27. Oh NOW it's "the People's House"

[senseandsensibility]

32. Trump seems highly, highly unlikely to use this term

Who is writing this? Or is it AI?

[BlueTsunami2018]

33. I do but I'm nerdy like that.

In confident that he doesn’t write ninety percent of the things that get posted by his account. The tells are the misspellings and terrible grammar.

He didn’t write this.

[msfiddlestix]

35. Sort of common British usage but not here in the USA. Makes me kind of Wonder is his new assistant Brit who knows?