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?
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.
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Tell that to color and aluminum.
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Is it? Considering Webster ripped through a tonne of spellings it’s not really conservative in that regard. Maybe in pronunciation?
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American English tried to change many spellings (ie not conservative).
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Much more complex, too, with all the extra loanwords from Native languages, Spanish, and German.
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.
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.
I know what you mean as a Brit. In my head whining is more high pitch haha
But technically they have the same definition.
