to hate the word "poorly"??

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

No, not a northern thing, we use it down south too (see below from dictionary proof).

?adverb

1. in a poor manner or way: The team played poorly.

?adjective

1. in poor health; somewhat ill: I hear she's been poorly.

[Origin: 1250?1300; ME pourely. See poor, -ly] Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

And it's sofa in our house.

SOFA sounds like an acronym for a sexually transmitted disease.

Are we living in parallel universes maybe ?

It sounds even worse said in a northern accent with its three syllables.

'Poo-wer-lee'. Eurch! Stop it.

What Northern accent are you trying there SPidermama? Not one I recognize!

It is a perfectly valid word that has been used for at least 150 years, probably longer.

Sounds like Leeds to me !

just Yuk.

Will be peed off if my children ever say "poorly".

they dont even know what it means!

It was indeed Leeds. Well done Scatter. You have quite an ear.

Thank you !!!

I don't like it but it makes me laugh. It sounds like baby talk to me.

Once at school in Australia, a little English girl joined my class and said in her posh (we thought) voice "Miss, I feel poorly", and we all POSL. Which was very mean of course (we were 6 and 7 year olds, in our defence), but I always think of that little girl when I hear someone say it.

Even more annoying (to me - obv not everyone agrees!) is
"I have a poorly cough"
"DD is poorly sick"
"DS has a poorly sore knee"

huh???

Ah yes - poorly sick is just too twee ! I do agree that that is no good - but good old "Poorly" is what it says on the tin !

well, I think we can all agree that "poorly sick" is just STOOOPID

I hate the word belly. Makes me cringe.

I don't like belly either! It would be impossible to have a belly unless it was bloated and hairy.

Although I don't mind belly-button. What else would you call it?

Tummy button of course.

hate belly. so coarse.

And tewibly common

But the word I hate most of all is vagina. Why do blokes get willy/cock/knob/bollocks ... all pleasant, cheerful words, and we get vagina.

pronounce it long and sexily, like a latina woman... vahg-eeeeeeena. better?

Careful rabble - you'll start up that old argument about "frou frou" versus "vulva".

And don't forget we have "fanjo"

Ah yes, I feel better now, Tooty.

'You say vah-geeeeeeena, and I say vagina'

Ok I am not going to read the whole thread but how the hell did something start out as not liking the word poorly turning into vulvas & vageeeeeeeeeeeeeena (aitch)

Ah, UCM again!! Somewhere in the middle we also touched upon settees v sofas, now we're on fanjos.

I must 'fess up. It was me who started the fanny thing.