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Option	Votes
from websit	2
bannable offence	1
they are not like us and for that we must show love and compassion	1
bannable offense	0

― jergïns, Saturday, 18 August 2007 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

O - Keith uses it, and he's going to get us unregistered, so okay

― jergïns, Saturday, 18 August 2007 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

bananable offense

― Heave Ho, Saturday, 18 August 2007 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Thursday, 23 August 2007 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

Free Guess Papers

― Pablo A, Friday, 24 August 2007 03:32 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

whilst

― lxy, Saturday, 8 September 2007 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

banned

― jergïns, Saturday, 8 September 2007 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

from websit

― lxy, Sunday, 9 September 2007 00:48 (nineteen years ago)

^o^

― am0n, Sunday, 9 September 2007 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

amongst

― Just got offed, Sunday, 9 September 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

americans use amongst

― lxy, Sunday, 9 September 2007 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

WHILST

― lxy, Sunday, 11 November 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

people in apartment buildings who forget to close their windows while they're fucking

― gershy, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

The usage of whilst is chiefly British. For example, the BBC World Service website “Learning English”, in their “Ask about English” section, uses the word whilst when explaining the usage of “while and whereas”.
In American English and Canadian English, whilst is considered to be pretentious or archaic.

― buzza, Sunday, 23 December 2012 20:46 (thirteen years ago)

it was chiefly British until maybe 10 or 15 years ago, but due to the widespread influx of British English into North America from TV and internet sites like Wikipedia and, well, ILX, "whilst" is now commonplace in the US too.

― Lee626, Sunday, 23 December 2012 21:58 (thirteen years ago)

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