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So... How Do You Pronounce "whinging" In The U.k.

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Clanad | 17:07 Tue 07th May 2013 | News
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I see this term a lot on this site (as well as other British articles) and assume it correlates to our (U.S.) whining... meaning uneeded, unwanted and unappreciated groaning and moaning about a person, incident or life in general...

Ours is pronounced as spelled as in "wine - ing"...

Thanks in advance for this Colonist's continuing education in all things British!
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There are several moot theories on the origin of 'Pom' and 'Pommies' Michael Quinion's World Wide Words website is considered the most accurate: "It is now pretty well accepted that the pomegranate theory is close to the truth, though there's a slight twist to take note of. HJ Rumsey wrote about it in 1920 in the introduction to his book The Pommies, or New...
17:26 Tue 07th May 2013
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Win as in not lose and jing with a hard j like jingle
17:08 Tue 07th May 2013
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winjing
17:09 Tue 07th May 2013
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Wine-ing is spelled whining.
17:09 Tue 07th May 2013
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winge in
17:09 Tue 07th May 2013
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Super! Thanks, woof (rhimes with roof)...
17:09 Tue 07th May 2013
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as in 'bingeing', 'singeing', hingeing'

the first bit is pronounced as 'win'
17:09 Tue 07th May 2013
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I pronounce the h, so the first syllable is like whip... and then jing.

Apparently minging is different, though (a derogatory term, usually of women, that I've never had cause to utter)
17:10 Tue 07th May 2013
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...And all others...system slow today!

Now back to my essay...
17:10 Tue 07th May 2013
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As in

Binge (binj)
Fringe (Frinj)
Whinge (Winj)
17:11 Tue 07th May 2013
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I'd spell it 'whingeing'. Whining is a different word, from the verb to whine, rather from the verb to whinge.
17:13 Tue 07th May 2013
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Snivel - rhymes with English
17:14 Tue 07th May 2013
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^poetic licence :-)
17:15 Tue 07th May 2013
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Traditionally; Poms are always 'whingeing' not 'whining'
17:16 Tue 07th May 2013
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true, but Sydneysiders say you can tell when a planeload of Poms has landed because the whining goes on after the engines are switched off
17:17 Tue 07th May 2013
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Only for the Appendix, mind you.. but what's a 'Pom'?
17:18 Tue 07th May 2013
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Australian equivalent to 'Limey'
17:19 Tue 07th May 2013
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It's what the Aussies call the Brits, like the Americans call us Limeys
17:20 Tue 07th May 2013
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Aha! It must have a context though... is it an abreviation or just generally understood slang... sort of like our 'Redneck'... no one can interpret what it's supposed to mean but everyone knows one when they see one...
17:21 Tue 07th May 2013
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winj

the other one is the other cardinal sin - wining or wyning
17:21 Tue 07th May 2013
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Whin - jing
17:22 Tue 07th May 2013

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