Re: OT: whinging (was Re: rms on debian : background noise)
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 04:50, Dave Howorth wrote:
> cr wrote:
> >>Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived there for 30+
> >>years), but I've heard it used all the time here in New Zealand, I thought it
> >>was a Kiwi-ism.
>
> Mark wrote:
> > Whinge has been in common usage for as long as I can recall here (UK).
> > Probably the thing to do is for someone with access to check the OED for
> > the etymological references.
>
> I'd agree with both of you :-) It certainly gets used here in the UK
> but the archetypical use must be the Antipodean phrase 'whinging poms'.
> Is that Kiwi or Aussie?
>
> Cheers, Dave
>
> PS For any yanks who don't know the word, 'poms' is equivalent to 'limeys'
>
Limeys - saliors eat limes to avoid scurvey
POMS - prisoners of mother england
equal?
-K
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