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Recently an American attempted to correct my spelling when I called them a whinger....Now, I live in Australia a country colonized by the English in 1788. I speak english and spell english in english. You know, english from where it originated from, being England.

Now this person's attempt at correcting me was rather nasty at heart and ill informed and the said person wrote that it was spelt WHINE not WHINGE and that I should know this as I am a "book writer".

So as I could not be bothered correcting the person as the whole saga was becoming ridiculous I have copied this straight from an online Concise Oxford English Dictionary whinge(whinge)

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verb (whinges, whingeing or whinging, whinged)

[no object]

complain persistently and in a peevish or irritating way:

stop whingeing and get on with it!

(as adjective whingeing)

a whingeing killjoynoun

an act of complaining persistently and peevishly:

she let off steam by having a good whinge

Derivatives

whingeingly

adverb

whinger

noun

whingy

adjective (whingier, whingiest)

Origin:

late Old English hwinsian, of Germanic origin; related to German winseln; compare with whine



Spelling help

Whingeing can also be spelled whinging, without an e; both are correct.



express dissatisfaction or annoyance about something

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continuing firmly or obstinately in opinion or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition

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having or showing irritable disposition

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causing annoyance, impatience, or mild anger

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person who deliberately spoils enjoyment of others

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of branch of Indo-European language family that includes English, German, Dutch, Frisian, and Scandinavian languages

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West Germanic language used in Germany, Austria, and parts of Switzerland, and by communities in US

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in addition

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be sign or characteristic of

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free from error

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complain persistently and in peevish or irritating way

act of complaining in such way So please Americans if your going to correct my spelling then at least get it right.

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Selkie
13:45 Feb 24 2011

yup and then there's the whole issue of dragged and drug which I destest/laugh at...

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Selkie
13:46 Feb 24 2011

d'oh! detest I meant...ahem..

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BabyxDoll
21:33 Apr 20 2011

That's why I don't bother to correct the little things like that because I know that I'm wrong in most of them. Americans have butchered the language so badly it's not even funny. The only things I tend to correct are the words with numbers in them or something so completely wrong that a two year old could point it out.

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Waylander
20:36 Apr 27 2011

that's was great. . . .

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DangerMouse
16:03 Dec 03 2011

well said... love the indisputable backup info :)



and i so know what you mean lol

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