[HPforGrownups] Little Whinging (Wing-ing? Winjing?)

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 53733

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Anne wrote:

> 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?

I'm American as well.  I've been pronouncing it Little WINJ-ing.  I don't
know if it's particularly British, but I have often heard "to whinge" used
as a synonym for "to bitch," "to whine," or "to complain."

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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"