# The use of "while" as conjunction and preposition

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**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 28, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-use-of-while-as-conjunction-and-preposition/711105 "2015-01-28T14:28:08Z")
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#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-use-of-while-as-conjunction-and-preposition/711105/11 "2018-06-13T13:51:37Z")

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> [@My Life SUCKS!!!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-sucks/92559/19):
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> It’s use as a preposition in UK English is regarded as dialect: “The baby will sleep while supper time.”

I’ve never head this (unsurprisingly) or read this. This is a regionalism? From where?

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