Years back, a reader of this column mentioned that, all of a sudden, she was hearing the word “whinge” everywhere. What was up with that, she wanted to know. I had no answer. To my recollection, that ...

Whinge – verb – Australian informal – to complain, whine, cry in a fretful way. We’re barely four weeks into 2012, and the whinging is already in full swing. Any gratitude for the birth of Christ, the ...

Did you know that the earliest examples of this well-known word are found in Scots and dialects of northern English? The Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) give us the following definition: “To ...

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