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Originally Posted by trichobezoar
That's interesting. I wonder if the originator of the article is British. Probably not. And he/she's probably generalizing if it's used in a particular region of Britain.
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"Whinge" seems to have come into common usage more broadly in the UK in recent times. I suggest the Poms 'borrowed' the word as a result of watching too many Aussie TV soap operas.
The term 'borrowed/loan word' is silly, no one ever returns them to the people from whom they borrowed them
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