Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Chainsaw/whilst

There was a truly fabulous headine in today's Age (online edition, it may not have made it into the physical paper).

"Police disarm man with chainsaw."
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/police-disarm-man-with-chainsaw/2007/02/20/1171733718704.html

On a completely unrelated note, I was reading something today and was reminded how much I dislike it when Australians write 'whilst' instead of 'while'. Our English chums do it, but I can almost excuse them for doing it, as they also say 'whilst'. But I don't think it's at all common in spoken Australian english, and there's absolutely no excuse for it here.

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