To this day I still don't know the use case for 'whilst'.
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Over time this distinction faded and it became just fine to use "while" itself as an adverb, so now "whilst" has no particular meaning other than sounding fancier/more British than "while"
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This is the case with all the fancy-pants sounding "-st" words, which frequently used to exist because the word's grammatical function has mutated since then E.g. "amid" used to be an adjective meaning "in the middle", so you'd say "The boat had a mast amid" by itself
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