It's whinge, pronounced winj.
UK / Australian English thing. It has a slightly different connotation.
Whine is what a dog does when it wants to go out.
Whinge is what a 14yo does when they don't get their way. It's salty whining.
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I feel as though in the US these are seen as the same sort of behavior, though perhaps to different degrees. The dog may be whining to go out, and the teenager is whining about having to take out the dog. Very interesting, the differences that have cropped up in such a short time between our dialects. Have a nice day!
Whining is usually general and not actionable, while whinging is specific and can be remedied.
My kid has spent the last few weeks whining about how hard it is to be a teenager. This morning they had a whinge about always being the one to let the dog out.
It sounds like "Whinge/ing" is equivalent to a tantrum or "hissy fit".
It's a step or two before the hissy fit, probably a step up from whining 👍
So in TheBananaKing's example of the dog wanting to go out, that's actionable, because the dog can be let out, and would therefore actually be whinging and not whining?
Perhaps. I've definitely heard whinge applied to animals, like when people talk to their dogs, "are you having a whinge mate? Didn't anyone let you out?".
In that context whine is the sound and whinge is the message.
Thank you, that makes sense of it. I suppose I see why the US dropped the "g" in whinge and just went with whine. There's a lot context in the differences, but they're also so similar that things could be more confusing when made more specific, to the point where the two are used almost, but not quite, interchangeably.
Fair enough. I had never seen the word before, but saw it used in comments in the same way that people usually use whine so I assumed it was a misspelling. My bad. Thank you for teaching me something new.
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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.
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."
This is actually a great insight.
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
Same here with British TV. I hadn't noticed any uptick, but I'd be happy if the term was adopted.
Stop whinging you dozy lummox
Love it
"whinging poms"
unpleasant ashes memories dragged kicking and screaming to the surface
Different word mate.
It's just British English
English (Traditional) over English (Simplified)
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Aussie’s like a whinge too
Just having a bit of a flap