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

[SliAnCroix]

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.

Second thread I've seen on this. It's a perfectly good, highly descriptive word.

Door does NOT rhyme with poor no matter where you’re from!!!

DH and I com from different parts of the country. Door most definitely rhymes with poor in this house.

Owl has one syllable. It's a bit of a stretch to rhyme it with towel

Again, in this house, it's no problem at all.

Owl, towel, cold. All rhyme

I swear I'm starting to think that Chandler might live about two doors away from me based on these pronunciations

Do you dry your hurr on a towl after a shar?

I swear I'm starting to think that Chandler might live about two doors away from me based on these pronunciations

Shout “poorly” out your front door and I’ll wave if I hear you.

I do egg!

Towel has two syllables

So does "ow-ul"

(Geordie here )

Do you dry your hurr on a towl after a shar?

I do, surely!

So does "ow-ul"

Don't be darft.

Door rhymes with more.

Poor rhymes with moor.

More and moor do not rhyme.

Phonelock must be from my part of the world. I live in a suburb ending with Moor, pronounced moo-Urr! As an incomer, I can't bring myself to say cook, look and book with a long oo though, even though relatives in my home town did the same.

More and moor do not rhyme.

I'm struggling with this one. More, moor, door, poor all rhyme perfectly.

Phonelock must be from my part of the world.

Certainly north of Watford, but I don't have a local accent.

More and moor do not rhyme.

Hmm interesting. How do you pronounce them @mathanxiety?

Moor has more of a moo to it

Poorly is the word I grew up with,proper poorly meant a serious touch and go illness or a long drawn out one
Sick was vomiting until I joined the world of work where you had to phone in sick,get a sick note etc.

I'm guessing it's:

Poor= poo-er
Moor= moo-er
And more= the opposite of less

If I said 'I'm sick' at school people would say 'ewww have you puked?'

Thank you @mathanxiety no idea how these philistines pronounce things 🤣

Moo er is more Yorkshire
Moo r keeping the moo sound but just one syllable is more Scottish

I was gobsmacked when my Australian friend said his mother was crook, because i thought he meant she was a crook, a criminal. He told me crook just means unwell. I was so glad of that. (And crook and unwell are much better words than poorly. )

I have just spent a long time on the short and long forms of that quiz. It offered very consistent results - consistently wrong.

Can't really blame it though (wellll, I think people in real life can place me accurately, because they know which signs are most telling and which others are just generic overlays). So, for not giving adequate weight to the important ones, I'd say the quiz doesn't work so well for people without strong dialect influences.

For example, it failed on the basic 'short or long vowels e.g. castle, grass, bath' distinction between northern and south-eastern England.

OK, where I am, Moor and more don't rhyme. They do where my family are from, though. Also north of Watford. More and Moor rhyme with myrrh, there!

@nerrsnerr could possibly adjudicate, here, though even there, some are in the paw camp and some in the poo-er camp.