Today’s Word of the Day is “whinge,” a British-ism meaning to whine or to complain. History and Etymology: Middle English *whingen, from Old English hwinsian. Akin to Old High German winsōn meaning to moan.
Also, just because, please don’t whinge as you read the following review from today’s NYTimes, about changing etymology in an Internet Age.
There.
Yer welcome.
Bonus musical content: “Whinge” used in a sentence:
“For those who whinged that the Freddie Mercury biopic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ played fast and loose with the facts — and I was one — it must be said that director Dexter Fletcher’s Elton John movie ‘Rocketman’ takes even more liberties with truth.”
— Jim Sullivan, WBUR.org, 31 May 2019
Photo credit: Twentieth Century Fox (i.e. “The Competition”). Those of you in the know will know why music has become much more important to me lately. But, never fear: Linguistics still makes my Top 10. Some things never change.
And of course…. <wait for it>…
Hey Hey – My My – Rock-&-Roll will never die.
Short i or long?
Aspirated w or not?