jas, you bad!
But, sadly, very correct in what you say...

Ah, sorry? Let they who are without sin, etc...

"Get your feet off of the table" - that disease is spreading here too. Bugger.

"All as I want to say..."

And my PET HATE

"I will be back momentarily" :ugh: :ugh:


Yeah, back at ya PukinDog - "nobody really talks like that" either...outside the US, anyways...y`all... :=


Regional language evolution...or linguistic genocide? Must be a cultural thing I suppose, sigh, remember many years ago desperately trying to explain to a Canadian the concept of rhyming slang - he just could not get his head around it! And he wasn`t even a real seppo... ;)


But anyway, from a quick google;

Both while and whilst have been in the language for a very long time. While was in use in Old English; whilst is a Middle English development of while. As conjunctions they are interchangeable in meaning, but whilst has not survived in standard American English.

I waited whilst Mugabe delivered what he thought were his pearls of wisdom…
I waited while breakfast was finished.

To the American ear whilst sounds quaint. Some British and Canadian speakers think it sounds literary or old-fashioned, but many British speakers prefer it to while.
See Among vs Amongst

Gidday, cobber, see ya later, mate! "Oz" enough there for all? :)
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Leave the poor guy alone.

No such thing! (I know jas24zzk,You were just being facetious)

Why??:confused:

................yeah here here leave da poor guy alone:) Where would we be without the Yanks? No big cubed engines, no KFC, No Boeings!!!:ok:The terrorists would be looking elsewhere too! ...........nah luv the yanks they make real good war movies too:ok:
We wouldn't have had Top Gun, ahhh Kelly you made that movie:E

Whilst I had momentarily thought that the above was of/off the wall silly sense came to me while I was tossing up whether to use further momentarily lapses off brain matter:)

Wmk2

I have been flying for 7yrs have 3500hrs know the standard phrases pretty well, all though not perfect. But what the hell does "joining for an oblique circuit" mean? I was doing an approach last week minima was 800ft then all of a sudden some jerk in a helicopter joins an oblique circuit 500ft and seems to think its ok to ignore all my other inbound call.

Ah, yes....

Top Gun.

The reason all those air force cadets turn up wearing bug-eye ray ban sunnies.....:rolleyes::yuk::yuk::yuk::yuk:

Gotta admit the chase sequence from the start of Behind Enemy Lines is f:mad:cking fantastic!:ok:

Drift out.