Whiling Away the Morning

     One day I said this to myself, and then I thought, "What a funny expression--one while after the other."


          while,
          while,
          while,
          while,
          while,

          just whiling away the morning.


     To better feel the morning going by, when you say it aloud, try to utter the breath sound [h] first and merge with the sound [w] following.  It takes a while longer to say.
                                                           
     The Proto-Indo-European root is kweie-, "to rest, be quiet."