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.

YABVU OP. I love it when my Yorkshireman DH says he is feeling proper poorly!

(obv I don't mean I love that he is ill )

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

It does, how can it not?

However my DC do often speak with an elongated oo sound, so maybe they would think they don't rhyme.

Yep, RP here and door and poor definitely rhyme.

Another Scot that uses the word poorly. It's a very common word here.

Some English accents don't really pronounce the R at all. So for door and poor you'd hear daw and paw. Whereas in Scotland I'd say d-oh-r and p-oooh-r.

I remember it being an issue on "rhyming" children's books too. Julia DOnaldson wrote "The Smartest Giant in Town" when living in Glasgow so she really should know that here, scarf and giraffe most certainly don't rhyme.

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

It does when my family and I say them!

Poor, Pore, More, Moor and Door all said in exactly the same way so all rhyme with each other.

(My family meaning my many siblings, as DH is Yorkshireman so says these words completely differently than us)

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

That is only true if you are unable to grasp what a different accent is. Are you?

Door does NOT rhyme with poor no matter where you’re from!!! I love how confident you are in proclaiming something that is completely untrue. 🤣
And I like the use of poorly - so even though I am not English and I live in England, I will continue to use it.

Of course door and poor rhyme! I'm sure in some accents they don't, but in plenty of accents, including mine (no accent, obviously, I speak proper), they are exactly the same sound.

Door and poor rhyme for me (Nottingham born and bred).

Door poor pour score floor sure tour whore roar phwoar

In America, girl rhymes with squirrel. And mirror rhymes with near.

So what we learn is that people speak differently. AND THAT'S OKAY.

'Tore, tour and tor'...

No way!

Tore and Tor, yes.

Tour - long O sound, doesn't rhyme.

Door and poor dont rhyme in my or dh's accents.

I just hate Americans saying the word poop - it sounds so childish.

Tour - long O sound, doesn't rhyme

But they all have long O sounds.

I don’t like the word poorly either. It sounds like a childlike word - use the right one for whatever the condition is!

I have an American friend who uses the term ''Sick'' that to me means 'vomit'...
She said 'I was sick yesterday'...and I said ''ugh, poor you, being sick is so hideous''....turned out it was nothing to do with vomiting , and was just a cold. :)

Tour sounds like almost like two-er to me. I can't think of anything it rhymes with in my accent 😂

Tour - long O sound, doesn't rhyme

But they all have long O sounds

True dat, maybe long O isn't what I was shooting for.

Tour is more of a long U.

@tillyteatowel...Agree..Poop sounds childish...but ''go potty'' is even more confusing...Instead of meaning ''go mad'' it means to need to evacuate the bowels/bladder

''I need to go potty'' from a grown woman sounds alien to English ears...but I'm sure we confuse /irritate others by our phrases. :)

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

In mu accent door and more rhyme and poor and moore also ryhme but all 4 do not sound the same whatsoever to me / us .

I found the it very frustrating to read the Smartest Giant in town out loud when dd was small as it just didn't work. Until we discovered putting on an really bad essex accent and then it did!

Tour - long O sound, doesn't rhyme

But they all have long O sounds.

In the North-East, "tour" is a diphthong ("too-uh")