I have a theory that 4 out of 5 people on the Internet who use “whilst” are Americans who think it makes them look smarter, rather than Brits who grew up using it as convention.
Which are you?
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SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
To add to what others are saying, you stick this through the corner of a stack of papers, and it then acts as a hinge so you can swivel the top half of the stack to expose a lower page, whilst still holding the whole stack together.
el_muerte@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It’s in the same family as staples and those H-shaped string things.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That ones called a string tag but theyre quite rare nowadays.