Dress Robes/school uniforms, Little Whinging (Wing-ing? Winjing?)

[Anne]

No: HPFGUIDX 53725

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, GulPlum <hp at p...> wrote:
> > If you're having trouble imagining boys wearing robes, take a 
look at this 
> page (it came up during that discussion): 
> http://home.freeuk.com/mkb/SUG/Blcoat.htm
> although, strictly speaking, they're wearing "coats" rather 
than "robes", 
> but you get the picture.

And this one shows what might be two main components of Dudley's 
Smeltings uniform:
http://home.freeuk.com/mkb/SUG/boater/boater.htm

I have to laugh every time I imagine Dudley's porcine skull being 
squeezed into a straw boater! not to mention the stick. Is this 
supposed to be like a cricket bat??


> >How does Sirius know exactly where to find Harry at the Dursley's 
on 
> >Privet Drive?
> 
>He certainly would know their name, at the 
> very least. Remembering that they lived in a place called Little 
Whinging 
> is no big stretch. You don't need deliberate mnemonics to associate 
the 
> Dursleys with that place name! :-)
> 

This must be a British "English" thing. How is the name of this town 
supposed to be pronounced, and does it mean something?? Being 
American (or perhaps being Midwestern) I've been pronouncing it 
Little Wing-ing (like the Jimi Hendrix song, Little Wing). Is that 
not correct? Is it supposed to be pronounced Little WINJ-ing? Or 
WHINE-ging? or WHINE-jing? In any case, what does that mean? Is it 
British slang for something?

Anne U
(sorry to sound so ... dumb...)