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.
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.
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.
It’s in the same family as staples and those H-shaped string things.
That ones called a string tag but theyre quite rare nowadays.
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?