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.

We don’t use poorly here in Australia but I don’t mind it, I’ve only seen it here on mumsnet. It covers a range of issues I think, so quite handy.

*I'd say the quiz doesn't work so well for people without strong dialect influences.

I'd agree. It placed me in a Broadcasting House newsroom circa 1955.

I don't like the word 'poorly' either. It just sounds wrong.

YABU I love the word poorly. It’s so quintessentially English. We don’t use it at all here in Australia. When I read it (only on Mumsnet) I always hear it in a northern accent - like poo-erly (is that Northern?? ).

Our accent is so boring. Poor, door, moor and more all rhyme here.

I can't stand the word 'poorly'. I always just think 'chav' or 'sap' when I hear it. Sorry.

More and Moor rhyme with myrrh,

Oh gosh, no - myrrh rhymes with slur.

None of them rhyme together.

@MadameMeursault
More rhymes with pour/pore/door/lore/shore/roar/snore/sore/store.
Moor rhymes with lure/poor/your/tour/Ruhr.

How does "poo-uh" rhyme with 'daw"?

Depends on your accent. In mine, a poo-er/pooh-uh is someone who has pooed. E.g. 'A random poo-er keeps leaving the third-floor toilets in a disgusting state.' Not commonly used, mind. Poor sounds like paw, in fact they're homophones. I've never heard a TV presenter say, 'poo-uh', you must have come across the paw pronunciation before?

I only used to use 'sick' for 'vomit'. Then, after i lived in Australia for a few years now substitute it for ill, like the best of them

In Australia we are sick or not feeling well. Poorly sounds ridiculous.

Also, we weren't sat there or stood there, we were sitting there or standing there.

@mathanxiety

How interesting! In my accent:
More and moor are homophones and rhyme with pour/pore/door/lore/shore/sure/roar/snore/sore/store/poor/tour

Slur rhymes with myrrh.

I'm not actually sure how I say lure anymore. I've confused myself! I think I rhyme it with slur. I definitely don't pronounce it like the woman on the Collins video though!

www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/an-increasing-number-of-british-people-dont-pronounce-the-word-three-properly-these-maps-explain-why-a7079976.html%3famp

I found that interesting to read.

Shore and sure rhyme? Roar and tour?

Crikey.

Shore and sure rhyme? Roar and tour?

Yep. Exactly the same sound. Tore, tour and tor are homophones.

Tore, tour and tor

since when?

@Poodles03 I think Chav is a truly terrible word. Sorry.

When I was a young teacher in Yorkshire, a friend of mine went for an interview and was asked, "art th'often badly?"

Which does make me realise that thee and thou were used for God and in God's Own Country. I haven't lived in Yorkshire for a long time, do older people still use thee and thou?

“Art th’often badly?”

That’s taken me straight back to watching All Creatures Great and Small as a child. I do love a Yorkshire accent!

Can I just say that a ‘Yorkshire accent’ isn’t really a thing. If you go to North Yorkshire people are fairly well spoken and in West Yorkshire the accent is a lot milder. You’re all describing South Yorkshire accents which I really dislike...

Nobody I have met in West Yorkshire says thee or thou or art, the worst they do is constant glottal stops.

@Umnoway

I’m afraid I’m Australian do those subtleties are way beyond me.

It was also used in East Yorkshire where my DH grew up Umnoway.
I love the fact that the the "tu" form of the verb to be, hung on in English for so long.

I know the thread has moved on but the word "Dodi" makes me want to punch people who say it. Luckily dd is 13 so I don't hear it much anymore.

I've hated it since I was a child. I remember feeling furious after having bronchitis that my teacher was calling me 'poorly' as if I had a sniffle.

Mind you, I hated tummy too. I was a very opinionated child.

Speaking of homophones, when my daughter was little I had bought her one of those books to go alongside her schoolwork and she was merrily working her way through an exercise on homophones and got to a question where she had to provide a homophone for flaw. She called me, I had no idea. My husband had no idea. We looked at the answers at the back of the book and it was floor. We decided it must be a misprint. No matter how we said them, we couldn't get them to rhyme.

I know now that it's a rhotic and non rhotic accent thing, but at the time we were bemused.

since when

No idea- accents and local pronunciations change, with variants falling in and out of favour over time. It's been the case where I grew up since before I was born, but I can't say when that happened.

Our accent is so boring. Poor, door, moor and more all rhyme here.

They do here too!

Also, there isn't just one Australian accent. Not to my ears, anyway.