AIBU to ask English people not to say poorly?! (lighthearted)

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It sounds a bit moany and weak. Can't get to grips with grown women saying their husband was poorly. It would be like saying my husband took a week off work because he had a bubu. I know we all have our own slang and some Irish slang probably sounds strange outside of Ireland in the next village

I am not speaking on behalf of everybody outside of England, I do realise this.

And full disclaimer, the word dodi makes me wince. I have done my best to eradicate that word. Service to my country.

What does dodi mean? I’ve never heard of it

I find these threads about not liking this word or that word increasingly tedious I'm afraid.

No one cares what you think.

Hmm, I’ve never heard of dodi.

I say poorly or not very well. It means properly ill but not so serious that they had to go to hospital. Otherwise they’re just under the weather.

I like poorly. It's just the right amount of vague 😁

A dodi is a dummy.

Dodi - soother or dummy (or pacifier!)

Why do all baby words have so many words

We don't say "poorly" in Scotland either. Or even worse, "poorly sick".

I'm sure this has been linked to before but answer a range of questions about various regional words and it will pinpoint where you grew up. For me it was very accurate.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html

Yep, let’s nix badly, slowly, loudly ... you get the message.

I might try ringing my line manager soon and telling him I'm poorly. There'd be a pause after that. He'd definitely think it was women's stuff.

Dodi= dummy (a baby’s pacifier?) where I am.

OP I also hate the word poorly too and can never not hear it being said in a really whiny voice when I read it.

However, you absolutely are being UR to ask anyone stop saying it

Poorly is a great word. It means you're ill enough to be in bed but not so ill that you need hospital treatment.

Also never heard of dodi!

@pineappledanish, that quiz is amazing!

We just say “sick” here if someone is, umm, sick.

Dodi can also be shortened to do (to rhyme with go)

We don't say "poorly" in Scotland either.

We do in my part of Scotland.

It's a totally inoffensive word unlike moist, which should be totally banned

YABU. I like saying “I’m poorly” in a really pathetic needy voice when I want someone to make me a drink or pamper me.

“I’m ill” doesn’t sound nearly as indulgent.

I don’t know what bubu or dodi is but I’ve used the word poorly since I was a child.

Poorly sick???? What??

Better than calling it a binky. Makes my teeth itch. Also I am English and also roll my eyes at the word poorly. Children get poorly. Grown men and women do not get poorly. We get sick or ill but not poorly. 😤 Gives me the stabby rage. Especially when paired with the poorly voice and the under the weather dressing gown.

I'm Scottish living in Scotland and I say poorly.

But it just doesn't sound weird to those of us who say it. It sounds perfectly normal. As normal as saying "ill".

Poorly is a crap word. It sounds like fake illness. I’d always imagine it to have inverted commas around it...
I don’t think it’s popular up here in Scotland but maybe it has become more common.

Thankfully I have never heard the term poorly sick

“ Poorly” is in the doghouse with its BFF, “cross” in my book.

Totes cringeballs.