To hate the phrase "poorly sick"?

[pollypocket99]

Every time I hear someone bleat the phrase "sorry to hear you're poorly sick" it makes my toes curl!!! What is wrong with either "poorly" or "sick"?!! No need for both. Sound so sickenly (excuse the pun!) infantile and just ugh!

Yep, YABU! This reminds me of my mum, and she's luffly and therefore can do no wrong!

If you think poorly sick is bad (it's not) wait until you her a grown man call being on your period 'poorly week!'

My violent wanker ex used to say this in a cringe-inducing baby voice if he felt unwell. Particularly sickening as the rest of the time he spoke with a heavy London 'rude boy' accent despite being born and raised in a leafy area of Eastbourne. YANBU but I admit I am biased because of this.

I'm from Yorkshire but I've never heard it before. I have heard 'poorly, sick and dying' though, usually used tongue in cheek or when someone feels ill and being dramatic.

Poorly sick sounds like something my two year old would say.

In fact, I don't think the UK as a whole used "sick" until we heard Americans saying it.

I speak foreign English, one of the things I had to learn (adjusting to the UK) is that in UK English "sick" means "vomit" rather than "ill".

I don't really understand what threads like these achieve.

Not much of a feel good factor.

I think they make people feel shit if they are being judged for using language natural for them.

Well I'm poorly sick at present. Have a chest infection and sickness, and feel like utter crap, so will be poorly sick if I want to be.

Actually in hospital the nurses always use 'poorly' for those who are really ill - kind of a code word, I've noticed. I got hugely scared when I overheard one saying to another about me 'she is really very poorly' because I knew what it meant in that context.

I wouldn't tend to use the phrase no, but feeling irritable and POORLY SICK. so there.

I'm in the NE and they use the word poorly here.

I'm a nurse and I often refer to dying clients as being 'gravely ill', which I suppose is a bit old fashioned.

YANBU I can't STAND it either!

I also can't stand people shortening the word pudding to 'pud'! Arrrrggghhh