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?

  • cam_i_am@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.”

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          I’m American but I like a lot of British TV so I was already familiar with it but I definitely noticed the uptick. It’s not the most famous scene but people like it enough to have it clipped on YouTube

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            Same here with British TV. I hadn’t noticed any uptick, but I’d be happy if the term was adopted.

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          Seems like a fair assessment, even if it’s unprovable. Not a bad heuristic to assume things get adopted from the biggest show to have ever aired.

          You got a counter claim?

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            Yes.

            Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon. They heard it on the show and started hearing it everywhere. It wasn’t mass adopted after the fact.

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              Not bad, both easily plausible. Next time you disagree, offer a civil counterclaim and it’s more likely to go down well.

              How hard was that?

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                  “But then you wouldn’t get all worked up about it”

                  READ: “You’re right”

                  Take care mate, it’s only a post. Peace

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              This is probably closer to the truth, as I first heard it in Firefly in 2002 before I started hearing it everywhere.

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          Not so sure about the first part of your name

          I just saw it getting used by non-british people after the show when I didn’t before. It’s an anecdote. I don’t have statistics and if you care enough to prove me wrong I’ll accept it’s confirmation bias