2y ago

What's up with "whinging"?

I have noticed lately that a lot of users on Lemmy spell whining as "whinging" what's up with that? I could understand if it was misspelled "wining" or somthing but that extra g really confuses me. Is this a misspelling specific for some region or is it lingo of some sort?

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It's whinge, pronounced winj.
UK / Australian English thing. It has a slightly different connotation.
Whine is what a dog does when it wants to go out.
Whinge is what a 14yo does when they don't get their way. It's salty whining.
- Fair enough. I had never seen the word before, but saw it used in comments in the same way that people usually use whine so I assumed it was a misspelling. My bad. Thank you for teaching me something new.
  
  Don’t ever be ashamed for asking to know more
- I feel as though in the US these are seen as the same sort of behavior, though perhaps to different degrees. The dog may be whining to go out, and the teenager is whining about having to take out the dog. Very interesting, the differences that have cropped up in such a short time between our dialects. Have a nice day!
  
  Whining is usually general and not actionable, while whinging is specific and can be remedied.
  My kid has spent the last few weeks whining about how hard it is to be a teenager. This morning they had a whinge about always being the one to let the dog out.
It's a different word. To have a whinge. Whinging. The G is pronounced like a J.
Google says it's more common in British English. I'm Aussie and we use it too. Mostly to hang shit on the English lol. I.e. whinging poms.
- It started getting used in the US a lot more after it was said by The Hound in an episode of Game of Thrones
  "So what are you whinging about?"
  "I'm not whinging!"
  "Your lips are moving and you're complaining about something. That's whinging."
  
  This is actually a great insight.
  
  Are you a language statistician or something? How could you possibly make that claim lol
- Stop whinging you dozy lummox
  
  Love it
- "whinging poms"
  unpleasant ashes memories dragged kicking and screaming to the surface
Different word mate.
It's just British English
- English (Traditional) over English (Simplified)
  
  I feel this comment got too many pedants and not enough appreciation.
  
  Funnily enough, this is backwards. American English is more conservative than British English.
- Aussie’s like a whinge too
- Just having a bit of a flap
I know this is "no stupid questions", but can you not google?
- It blows my mind that so many questions in this community could be instantly answered by Google. Just typing "whinging" gives its definition and identifies it as British.
  The question wasn't stupid. But OP was too lazy to even try and do their own research. Which ironically resulted in more work for them.
- Your question is pretty stupid, honestly, but it's not alone.
  
  Not really there's an added g to make a word that means exactly the same. I can understand how that might be confusing if you haven't heard it spoken.

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