My apologies to all who I thought secretly in my mind were misspelling a word for YEARS now!

[boston bean]

And being internally judgmental!

It is me who is the dummy... LOL

The word:

whinge

I always thought of it as a misspelling of 'whine".

Whinge is actually a better word most of the time, meaning - complain persistently and in a peevish or irritating way, vs, Whine - a long, high-pitched complaining cry.


Mea Culpa and my confession is done!

[Siwsan]

1. It is a great descriptive word

I've only ever heard it on British tv shows but now I use it quite often.

[boston bean]

7. It really is... I've seen it here often... and well you know the rest of the story...

[boston bean]

2. Does anyone know how it's pronounced? LOL

[friendly_iconoclast]

3. Rhymes with "hinge"

[boston bean]

5. All these years I've been mispronouncing it too! LOL

[librechik]

4. it's a British-ism (also Australia, where I've heard it used)

we don't use it here much. And it's pronounced like door hinge.

[djean111]

6. Whinge is a MOST beautiful word, I use it now and then.

I assume people will think I have just misspelled whine (my keyboard does stick sometimes, and capitals are iffy; I just consider all misplaced lower case a tribute to archy and mehitabel), but that's okay.

My peeves are the misuse of peek, peak, and pique, "alot" (reminds me of busily texting teenagers), and mixing rein and reign.

[boston bean]

8. I use to be able to spell well and type really fast with very few mistakes.

The older I get and I'm not that old, but still... I tend to make the kinds of mistakes you note above. Most times I catch it before hitting the post button and say to myself, WTH is wrong with you.... And sometimes I just completely miss it.

Also, I use to be able to catch misspellings by others easily, now I don't catch them like I use to.

I'm attributing all of this to reading so many misspellings on the internet that my brain has gotten fuzzy! LOL

[Paulie]

9. "Little Whinging"

Why name a town with that name... oh, yeah. REASONS.

[Kalidurga]

10. Thanks I have never seen that.

But, now I know I have been misspelling the Right Wing party. I had no idea it was supposed to be Right Whinge.

[mcar]

11. An understandable mistake

And more people are now discovering a wonderful word.

[Bucky]

12. I thought you meant "misspelling"

which I was getting wrong for years as well

[Cal33]

13. I don't remember ever having come across the word before. So, you're ahead of me. :)

[vanlassie]

14. I learned it from my British son-in law after my

British grandbaby was born! Haha!!