Re: MSNBC (Oberg) - Deadly space lessons go unheeded

From: JazzMan (No_Spam_at_airmail.net)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:52:21 -0600

Rhonda Lea Kirk wrote:
>
> JazzMan wrote:
> > Fred J. McCall wrote:
>
> >> He'd be making better usage to not buy the computer,
> >> not buy the ISP access, and spend the money on
> >> something he's whinging about desperately needing
> >> and not having.
>
> > And by the way, whining doesn't have two g's in it.
> > :)
>
> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=whinging
>
> whinge (hwnj, wnj)
> intr.v. Chiefly British whinged, whing·ing, whing·es
> To complain or protest, especially in an annoying or
> persistent manner.
> [Dialectal alteration of Middle English whinsen, from
> Old English hwinsian.]
> whinger n.
> whinging·ly adv.
>
> http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/chref/chref.py/main?query=whinge&title=21st
>
> whinge verb (whinged, whingeing) intrans, colloq to
> complain irritably; to whine. noun a peevish complaint.
> whingeing noun, adj. whinger noun.
> ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon hwinsian to whine.
>
> rl

Too funny!

Thanks!

JazzMan 

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