[lit-ideas] Re: Whinger... (Was: Thinks...)

It's odd. There's whine, and it's perfectly good form whiner. Why would
anyone take whinge and turn that into whinger?

yrs,
andreas
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:17 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Whinger... (Was: Thinks...)


> In a message dated 6/1/2004 1:10:35 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> I asked,  because whiner rhymes with wine. Whinger sounds so  un-English.
>
>
>
> Yup. Unfortunately, when it comes to etymology, the OED is here not  very
> ellucidatory, but rather circulatory:
> 'whinger': "presumably related to the earlier  synonymous 'whinyard' ..."
> 'whinyard': "of obscure  origin; cf. 'whinger'."
> The OED notes there's Scot dial. 'whinge', to whine, a 'whinge', a whine.
> Cheers,
>
> JL
>
>
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