OPINION: Two weeks after chiding King Charles III’s grammar, I’m still drowning in the feedback.
Plenty of you agreed. Some commuters cited other hoity-toity terms, where the men’s loo at Wynyard once requested: “Gentlemen Please Adjust Your Dress Before Exiting”. Or the elegant platform recording, as Carl Ottey recalled: “Please stand clear to allow other passengers to alight before boarding”.
“Being English by birth and education, I was brought up with whilst having quite a different meaning from while. While means during. Whilst means on the other hand, or perhaps whereas.” Roaming grammar books, I’ve learnt Monica is right, historically. To quote one scenario: “I shivered in the bathroom while I ran a bath whilst my sister stayed in her warm bed.” The first means as; the second, whereas.Technically, that exonerates the monarch and admonishes Sydney Transport.
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