To this day I still don't know the use case for 'whilst'.
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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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And "amidst" turned it into a preposition, "The boat had one larger mast amidst the others" But now no one actually uses the word "amid" the first way so "amid" and "amidst" are strictly synonymous
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