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

From: Rhonda Lea Kirk (rhondaleakirk_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 09:08:19 -0500

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.

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