Agreed. Also not to pile it on -- it's a complete tangent, really -- but every time I read the word "whilst" I cringe and wonder why the author didn't write "w

Agreed. Also not to pile it on -- it's a complete tangent, really -- but every time I read the word "whilst" I cringe and wonder why the author didn't write "while". IMHO it adds no additional information or nuance, it's an archaic word that's long since departed from spoken use, and its presence in a sentence serves only to signal a failed attempt to sound sophisticated. Maybe it's just me, but for some reason it always triggers this reaction of "oh get off it, stop being pompous". /rant /tangent