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Ok, I'll admit I was caught up in the William and Kate nuptials last week, but while most of my friends were keeping score on all the fashions, I was loving this one word that kept popping up during the ceremony: betwixt

I understand it is used in the U.S. as well, but they use it so grandly in the U.K.

Is it completely interchangeable with between?

Really doesn't matter. I think I shall try to bring it back into prominence, though I think that Californians might be too independent to budge!

Oh well,
Sardith

The British dictionaries label it "archaic." It is defined as meaning "between" and appears to be frozen in place in the idiom "betwixt and between."

I agree that it is a nice word. Maybe, just betwixt you and me, we can use it more often.

It's a deal, bnjtokyo!

But, just betwixt you and me, how're you doing over there betwixt all of the aftershocks and Techtonic plate settling?

Sardith

Aye, this word is almost exclusively met in the phrase betwixt and between. Though, as sardith uses it, it works.

I can see other such ways to use it in a modern sense, but not as a universal replacement for between. I just can't see saying something like, "My house is on the left, betwixt Oak and Maxwell."

It just sounds so wonderful tripping off the British tongue, though.

I guess I'll just wait for the next Royal wedding!

Sardith

p.s. The one saying I think would be improved:
'caught betwixt a rock and a hard place'

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p.s. The one saying I think would be improved:
'caught betwixt a rock and a hard place'

During their war many years ago, one local Baltimore DJ said that Iran was a country caught between Iraq and a hard place ...