I have noticed lately that a lot of users on Lemmy spell whining as “whinging” what’s up with that? I could understand if it was misspelled “wining” or somthing but that extra g really confuses me. Is this a misspelling specific for some region or is it lingo of some sort?
It’s just British English
English (Traditional) over English (Simplified)
I feel this comment got too many pedants and not enough appreciation.
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Is it? Considering Webster ripped through a tonne of spellings it’s not really conservative in that regard. Maybe in pronunciation?
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Tell that to color and aluminum.
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American English tried to change many spellings (ie not conservative).
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Much more complex, too, with all the extra loanwords from Native languages, Spanish, and German.
Just having a bit of a flap