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Aibu to find it really annoying how English people use this word?

Sick. You mean sick. Unwell. Under the weather.

Unless the question is "how did Rangers perform?" and the answer is "lol poorly" it has no place in the English language.

You’ve never been to the West Midlands then. It’s vernacular.

It’s only English people, using the word this way, that annoys you? Weird.
It’s an adverb and an adjective. And has been in use, meaning unwell, since approximately the sixteenth century. Any other old, commonly used words annoy you?

I’m English and I don’t use that word. English people aren’t all the same.

We all say different stuff depending on where we are from, surely everyone knows that?

YABU and weird.

I'm from Birmingham. It's pronounced 'poo-lee'.

You are not in charge of the English language.

It's commonly used in our local hospital (especially in the elderly care unit). My relative was 'very poorly', then 'poorly' and now is 'doing much better'. The doctors tend to use 'unwell'. Both are less harsh than 'sick' and the (often) stressed relatives can process the softer words better.

Poorly here. Or even poorly-sick

I use it. It's just part of our rich vocabulary. HTH.

It's a perfectly normal word - maybe a bit old fashioned as I mainly think of my nan saying it, but not awful.

Personally I think 'sick' means throwing up. I would say ill or unwell.

There seems to be so many of these type of threads at the moment.
For goodness sake, just have a bloody day off from being annoyed about something so insignificant.
You might find you have a nicer, brighter day.

YABU. Poorly as in unwell is different to poorly as in performed badly.

Sick is awful, it implies vomiting.

Admittedly I would tend to use poorly to describe my child being ill, and would use ill or unwell for myself

I say poorly and quite like it.

"Poo-er-ly" actually! Ideally with upward inflection on last syllable 😁

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I hate it when people say 'I'm sick' it's so American and awful. Sick is vomit so if you tell me you're sick I'll assume you mean a sick bug or similar and run away from you. If you've got a cold you're ill or poorly etc but not I'M SICK. It's so jarring. I much prefer poorly.

It neans you feel in poor health. Don't see the issue with it.

Well if we're going to show our intolerances for interesting variations in use of the English language in the UK, I will throw back the Scottish use of the word stay.

Unless the question is about which hotel or other temporary accommodation you use when travelling, the word is 'live' and we English find your question 'where do you stay' and expecting to be answered with the location of one's home extremely confusing.

I agree OP. I appreciate it shouldn’t have this effect, but it makes me think the user is a bit of a wimp.

I agree - Americans often use "sick" to mean "unwell", whereas Brits more commonly use it to mean "vomiting".

YABU

If someone says sick, I'd think they'd been vomiting

I cant stand the word ‘poorly’- its on the same horribly twee level as ‘hubby’ to me 🤢

What's incorrect about using it to refer to someone being unwell? Many words have two meanings, or similar meanings that can be used in different contexts. 'Poorly' is one such word.

"The word "poorly" when used to mean "ill" comes directly from the word "poor" with the addition of the suffix "-ly," essentially meaning "in a poor state" or "not well," with its earliest usage tracing back to Middle English where "poor" could also signify a state of ill health; "poureliche" being an early form of "poorly" signifying inadequacy or a bad condition. "

Off you pop back to the 1100's then to have a word with the people who started it.

If you're going to be a needless pedant at least do it properly.

So you are upset about the use of the word poorly but are OK with the phrase 'Under the weather'

That makes no sense to me but I'm not bothered by either

Sick is vomit. Poorly is unwell. In my world! :)