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.

Loving all the comments, so funny.

@musicposy, me too, the quiz is so good. My parents are from Carlow and Wicklow so it pinpointed me (the reddest) to south dublin but there were little smatterings of pink from those areas too! My colleague is from Tallaght and it nearly gave him the door number of the house he grew up in!

@PineappleDanish

Wow ! That quiz ! I was a Forces Brat bought up all over the place but it pinpointed the area I lived in between 7-13 years old ! The longest I had lived in one area !

At least I'm not bitter about it.

Poo-er and dore.

Sick- vomiting
Poorly -ill

This. “Sick” was only every used for the actual act of vomiting when I was a child. The use of “sick” to mean ill is relatively new to me- i think of it as an americanism for some reason, probably because they differentiate by using “sick to my stomach” to mean vomit.

Hearing someone say their sick when they mean ill doesn't sound right to me, i’d automatically assume d&v bug or something.

Dodi is familiar due to irish heritage.

“Poorly” is mixed- in the NE it’s entirely normal.

“Poorly bad” I’ve heard too.

I'm not English and I'll say poorly as much as I like.

Yes 'poorly' seems a very odd description people use to fit anything from a common cold to a dire debilitating illness.

I'm Irish and I live in Ireland - I say poorly! I know loads of other people that say it where I'm from.

Poorly is a great word, I learned it in England. I used it when my kids were small. They use it, we are in Munster

Can someone write the phonetic pronunciation whereby poor and door do not rhyme?

Poor= like poo-er but not an emphasis on the er. Also like lure, cure, moor.

Door= Like gore, snore, more,

Poorly to me means really quite unwell, hospital level of illness. Really very poorly is approaching death.

Honestly these threads are so fucking tedious

Then don’t read them? there are others.

pronounciation:

poor in many parts of Scotland = puir (same sound as French 'mur' and not really used in England, except perhaps in words such as 'overture')

door = doorrr

My late dh hated the term 'nicely' particularly referring to someone getting over a health crisis. "How is Dot now?" Oh she's nicely. Very weak word that says nothing!

Poor= like poo-er but not an emphasis on the er. Also like lure, cure, moor.

Door= Like gore, snore, more

That made me laugh because I pronounce poor, moor, door, gore, snore and more the same. Cure when I say it is like "your" but with a c at the beginning.

I've never pronounced lure outloud I dont think but in my head it's like "your" with an l

The quiz pinpointed me to, umm all of Northern Ireland! I’ve never lived more than 10 miles away from where I grew up!

Poor= like poo-er but not an emphasis on the er. Also like lure, cure, moor.
Ta. Except that lure, cure and moor, none of those rhyme 😂

I can never understand its use in news broadcasts/newspaper reports. To me it's a 'cosy' sort of word that belongs in an informal register, so reading things like 'he is in hospital where he is said to be "very poorly"' in a formal setting like a newspaper always jars on me. I mean, if someone had an injury the news report wouldn't say they had an 'owie', would it?!

Poor= like poo-er but not an emphasis on the er. Also like lure, cure, moor.

I remember seeing an epic argument about this on Come Dine With Me once.

Sorry mamacoco I realised after I’d posted that those words all sound the same in some accents. I guess you’ll just have to google a Northern Irish accent saying those words.

Except that lure, cure and moor, none of those rhyme

What is your accent?

Lure and cure do

Moor doesn’t

Poorly is fine.

What’s your accent soubriquet?

Poorly gives me the ick! It's sounds so cloying and childish. I can't BEAR it. But I do also understand that it doesn't have these associations for everyone!