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?

    • Thehalfjew@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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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          Whining and whinging are definitely not the same thing, but I’m struggling to articulate why. Just something British (and I guess Australian, judging by this thread) folks grow up with and intuitively understand.

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            1 year ago

            I know what you mean as a Brit. In my head whining is more high pitch haha

            But technically they have the same definition.