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.

I’ve never heard “happy out” before!

It’s much used in the Republic

which rhymed owl and towel

Yes, that’s a perfect rhyme. What’s your problem?

yanbu
poorly sounds to me like a minor ailment that can be cured with a cuppa,

I have been thinking what people where I live would say where others might say 'poorly' and I have concluded that it would be 'not well'.

'An ambulance had to be called at work today, someone on the third floor took not well'.

We had a similar thread last week

I said then and I'll say now, poorly is used by the types who also say horrid and cross.

Enid Blyton types

One poster a few months ago described her car, which had something wrong with the engine as having a "poorly tummy"

FFS

It's not used in the north, where people give off and don't give out! Bold is a great word too.

Fun fact

The booboo thing is bobo is France.

In France.

where people give off and don't give out!

Another difference that flummoxed me when I moved down south. I still can’t say ‘give out’

Bold is a great word.

It's not used in the north, where people give off and don't give out!

Yeah, we'd be giving off to the weans for refusing to put their coat on, because if they go out like that they'd be foundered!

which rhymed owl and towel

Correctly

An ambulance had to be called at work today, someone on the third floor took not well'.

See i’d say “took bad”.

I'm 100% with you OP, I really loathe 'poorly'. The worst is when a doctor or nurse uses it. Is your relative going to live through the night? Well, they're very poorly so... Ugh! It's so... euphemistic.

I also hate 'passed' for died (but that's for another thread). Why do we have to pussyfoot around everything. Someone is sick/ill. Someone died.

Really struggling to see how owl and towel don’t rhyme! What am I not understanding??

we'd be giving off to the weans for refusing to put their coat on, because if they go out like that they'd be foundered!

As a child I had a babysitter who would say “right, will you put on you before I give out”

Meaning “okay, put your clothes on before I start shouting”

seetheprettysnowdrops YES! I also hate 'horrid' and 'cross'. So wet.

Reminds of that sketch - Not the 9 o'clock news I think - with the gorilla. When you captured him, was he completely wild?
The gorilla goes 'Wild? I was livid!'.

Yanbu
I find it so weak and pathetic too

But then I also loathe ‘full of cold’

The only rhyme I remember having a real problem with in Julia Donaldson is ‘scarf’ and ‘laugh.’.

Just ... no.

My war era geordie grandparents said ‘took poorly’, it doesn’t sound Enid Blyton to me! My Dad once rang me up to say my brother was ‘a bit poorly’. He was in intensive care.

I don't think poorly sounds babyish round here it's maybe a little old fashioned. Never heard of bubu and dodi.

My part of Scotland;

• poorly = no well
• vomiting/nausea = the boak
• coughing with phlegm = wet boak
• coughing with no phlegm = dry boak
• feigning illness = at it - did ye aye?
• hung over within 24 hours of Friday / Saturday night = rattlin’

I haven't RTFT but even worse than ‘poorly sick’ is ‘poorly bad’ or just ‘’ers bad.’ Meaning ‘she’s bad.’

I remember saying to mil one of my dc was ill (or maybe sick) and she practically gasped. I’m sure she expected ‘poorly’.

My DP has the same issue with the word tummy (for anyone over 6). 😕

@isabellerossignol it was an amused haha not a sarcastic one, sorry

@ChandlerIsTheBestFriend how do you say mirror? If it's like my friend then I can just imagine all your pronunciations based on her 😂😂

I can't say i've ever seen anything wrong with the word myself...