to hate the word "poorly"??

[allgonebellyup]

Just hate it. Its not a real word, its a made up one. Whats wrong with saying "ill"?

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I hate it too. Very silly. Needlessly euphemistic.

Even worse though is when people say they're feeling a bit pooey. Uergh! FGS tighten up!

Speccy, thats what i thought.

Isn't sick to mean ill, rather than nauseous American English? And I think of poorly as Northern - my dp uses it and he's from Bradford.

I hate it when women who are pregnant or new parent are referred to as 'Mum' and the child as 'baby'

I say "feeling a bit unwell" or "not feeling well" never poorly..but I am Scottish.

it's a great word, totally describes that low, bleh, wrung-out feeling you get when under the weather. sick means 'about to vom' in my house too, katelyle.

'unwell' is much better.

The word poorly is not as awful as the word settee, though.

Oh and 'not well" sounds very Scottish, to me.

Jools, oooh i hate that too!! When i was pg..."so how's mum then?"
Grrrrrrrr.. Im not "mum", im allgonebellyup !

Why is 'I'm not well' objectively any better than 'I feel poorly'?

lol settee, WTF??

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I always think od 'im sick' for unwell being very american

same with people saying I'm in school or going back to school .... no I am in university not school

HATE the word "settee" even more too!!!!

(my mum, snob that she is, says poorly and settee are words used by "common" families)

runs away quickly....

No idea Aloha, my relatives are from Doncaster and they sound fine say "Oh shes poorly" but I sound silly when I say it.

that's because if the scriptwriters could spell gastro-enteritis they'd be working on Holby, aimsmum.

Well I'm dead posh me - and I say Poorly and SOFA !!!

I hate the word 'sofa'. You park your arse on the settee in my house!

i'm more bothered when people (ahem ex mil) pronounce hospital and little as 'hospikal' and 'liccle', not to kids just the way she says them. arghhh!

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yes Sally Webster sounds fine saying it.

oh i say couch, is that posh or common?

Peter Rabbit was famously poorly.