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Antarctica sightseeing flights from Australia: Qantas jumbo's cool day trip
The veteran 747 captain is one of only four Qantas pilots qualified to captain the airline's most unusual flight route – a 13-hour jaunt to Antarctica and back. Tour company Antarctica Flights charters a Qantas jumbo jet a few times a year to take tourists on a sightseeing tour of the world's coldest, most remote continent. It's an opportunity to get a bird's-eye view of this frozen wasteland and get a real sense of the awesome size and harshness of the landscape.… (www.msn.com) עוד...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
What a bunch of whinging by other commentators. This is something interesting and air-related. Just because you've heard of it, doesn't mean everyone knows about it. It's also nice to hear of special 747 flights available out there as they dwindle. I'm really glad I was made aware of this article.
What does "whinging" mean? Is it an English word? What does it do?
It's a British English word. The American equivalent is "whining".
Thank you for clarifying the matter. I was unaware of this spelling version, thank you for explaining what I had never heard of this spelling for its current version before. It's good to learn something new every day.
According to Merriam-Webster:
Whinge isn't just a spelling variant of "whine." "Whinge" and "whine" are actually entirely different words with separate histories. "Whine" traces to an Old English verb, "hwinan," which means "to make a humming or whirring sound." When "hwinan" became "whinen" in Middle English, it meant "to wail distressfully"; "whine" didn't acquire its "complain" sense until the 16th century. "Whinge," on the other hand, comes from a different Old English verb, "hwinsian," which means "to wail or moan discontentedly." "Whinge" retains that original sense today, though nowadays it puts less emphasis on the sound of the complaining and more on the discontentment behind the complaint.
See:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whinge
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Whinge isn't just a spelling variant of "whine." "Whinge" and "whine" are actually entirely different words with separate histories. "Whine" traces to an Old English verb, "hwinan," which means "to make a humming or whirring sound." When "hwinan" became "whinen" in Middle English, it meant "to wail distressfully"; "whine" didn't acquire its "complain" sense until the 16th century. "Whinge," on the other hand, comes from a different Old English verb, "hwinsian," which means "to wail or moan discontentedly." "Whinge" retains that original sense today, though nowadays it puts less emphasis on the sound of the complaining and more on the discontentment behind the complaint.
See:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whinge
Brought to you by the Recreational Etymology Association
A perfect example of logomachy.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/logomachy?s=t
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/logomachy?s=t
Wow, so many words for wailing and moaning...sounds like it really sucked to live in 16th century Britain.
Ha! You learn something new every day, eh?!
BTW as an ex-Brit myself but living in the US for well over 20 years, I knew both words, what they meant and their spelling!!
BTW as an ex-Brit myself but living in the US for well over 20 years, I knew both words, what they meant and their spelling!!
British - English? That's like saying Canadian - American!!