Couldn’t actually find my friend Sian’s connotation represented… which is why I tucked in that parenthetical about maybe it just being her connotation.

Thanks for your good wishes! How’d your religion paper go?

Whinge is used in both Oz and Britain. As the British use it in London, whinging is an unwelcome vocal uttering of what should be obvious to everyone about — like it’s hot and you’re going on about it as if it only effects you; like saying how horrible is it to have to queue when, lo and behold, there are a hundred gajillion others standing there with you… but NOT mentioning it.

Put another way, here in Britain, It’s the sin of losing one’s ’stiff upper lip’. Can’t speak of Aussies. They’re different. Kinda like the love-child of an errant American businessman and a Brit on holiday in New Zealand. Everyone knows one is supposed to go home, open a cupboard door and mumble one’s torment about life being unfair, quietly in one’s private dark.

Whinging is a kind of strident whining, a variant used more often than whine here in the home counties. Here, I would hope for our friendship and your reputation, that you’re not seen as whinging but instead, just whining.

Cheers! and all the best toward a full recovery.