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.

@wobblywinelover that's so true about the ''making your teeth itch''. If I said that in real life, I'm sure somebody would just said 'what do you mean, teeth don't itch''.

What the hell is a bubu?

A bubu is like a grazed knee, and it's only used for children. And poorly has the same feel ! But YET, adults go around saying it, without any embarrassment!

Sick" on the other hand, should only be used when one is vomiting.
And also for when something's mega wicked.

What the hell is a bubu?

I'm glad somebody asked.

where are you and how do you say lure?

Northern Ireland and I just say lure! I don’t know how to describe it that will accurately portray the pronunciation because you obviously say everything that rhymes with it in a different accent than me. I’ll give it a go- lure= tour, poor, moor, sewer.

I hate poorly

I can’t stand the word poorly used by adults in England. In Nz you’d use it to describe a small child who was unwell. Or maybe an animal. A baby animal. Been living here two decades and it still irritates me! I need to move on, I know...

Poorly is just a synonym of ill as far as I'm concerned. It doesnt imply the illness is trivial. Never heard of the OP's other euphemisms

why do so many people on MN seem to have itchy teeth? it's like a pathetic phrase people have picked up thinking it was funny to start with but now actually sounds like you are really uneducated.

Itchy teeth is actually a sensation. Like the one caused by nails scraping down a blackboard or knuckles cracking.

Nothing wrong with poorly. Never heard of Dodi for a dummy.

Bubu is actually booboo.

A friend of mine works in a particularly hard core branch of medicine. When they use the word 'poorly' it invariably means the patient is haemorrhaging from every orifice/ missing a head etc.

What on earth is a bubu? Is that yogi beard's friend? I have never heard anyone say bubu or booboo anywhere.

My teeth never itch. Happy with "sick" as well. Hate people saying they are nauseous when they mean nauseated. If you are nauseous it means you make me feel sick which may or may not be true.

I’m Irish too and yes it grates horribly. 🥺

It’s like something from a kiddy story book. Sick or ill, much better.

Dodi is v common in NI.

@isabellerossignol haha. Can someone write the phonetic pronunciation whereby poor and door do not rhyme? And put and but

SleepingStandingUp, ah, I know, I was being cheeky, but I couldn't resist.

Chandler has the same accent as me I reckon, or pretty similar.

To me, poor rhymes with pure, and door rhymes with oar.

I just realised recently on a discussion on a similar thread that one of my children has a name that is pronounced totally differently here as to how it would be pronounced in most of England. Weirdly it had never really occurred to me.

So many people express such an irrational hatred for the word "moist" that I sometimes feel a contrarian impulse to go around inserting it into conversations just for the heck of it.

"Mm, what a deliciously moist cake!"

"Oh, this humidity! It's so moist out today."

"That's such a sad film. The ending always leaves my eyes moist."

Moist, moist, moist.

MOIST.

Put would rhyme with boot and but would rhyme with nut.

On a slight tangent, I remember being really frustrated reading Julia Donaldson books to my kids because there were these huge clunking non rhyming bits in the middle of all these perfect rhymes. It took a mumsnet thread and someone recording themselves reading it before I realised that it was all down to accent. I thought she had done it deliberately, and I couldn't understand why.

As in, I thought Julia Donaldson had deliberately put non rhyming bits in her books. Not that I thought the mumsnetter who kindly recorded herself had deliberately made it rhyme just to spite me

A Teesside dodi is a Gregg’s sausage roll!

I shouldn't laugh, but it is pretty much the truth, though cooplands ones are better.

In Durham they say bad, not poorly. I will never forget going to the door of the kitchen at my college in Durham to ask for the pre ordered tray for a friend who was too ill to come in person. One of the kitchen staff called back into the kitchen, “Have you got the tray for the girl who’s bad in bed?”!!!

Oh yes, "bad in bed" covers everything. One is not just in bed, you are there because you are bad.

I’m in Yorkshire and here ‘poorly’ is used as a synonym for unwell/ill and covers anything from a minor cold to terminal illness. I’m going to use it more often as this snobbishness about it on here is bloody annoying!

But also poorly, if you are very poorly, you are "poorly bad"

I have a crazy mixture of dialect though.

when I hear poorly I think not very unwell - an upset tummy or something

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

Except that they all do...

@SliAnCroix only if you stop everyone over there saying "it was gas" when something was funny!

Oh deal! That sounds so fake cute. Im so marian keyes you're gonna LOVE me cos im a dote.