Poorly

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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.

Tummy is better than belly though 🤮

’Poorly vulva’ lives in my head rent free, as the kids say. Every so often I’ll remember it and boak!

Poorly isn't a word I use though I have no objection to others doing so. Personally, the word I can't stand being used instead of ill or unwell is sick. Sick means something specific, not general unwellness, and using it interchangeably with unwell or ill or even poorly is very confusing.

I have never met somebody who dislikes this word as much as I do! I dislike it as a synonym for unwell or ill when used by an adult. To me it is a word for young kids.

‘Sick’ to mean ‘ill’ is an American usage that was virtually unknown when I was a child but is now common. Why do you find it necessary to criticise the way others use their language?

We say poorly or ill. Sick means actual vomiting in our house. My Aussie husband struggles with this.....but they pronounce maroon marone so he can't talk really 😂

Whatever happened to good old ‘fanny’? To me that was always inoffensive enough - I don’t understand the insistence on ‘V’ words. Especially when, as so often, they’re misused - people saying ‘vagina’ when they mean ‘vulva’.

I think it’s mostly in England poorly is used though? Maybe other parts of the UK, I’m not too sure. I’m in Ireland and it isn’t really used. Not used in other English speaking countries like the US either as far as I know.

I did vote YABU OP, because I don’t think it’s helpful to police expressions like this. But I also think all the posters who don’t like ‘sick’ instead are being unreasonable too 😁 In many places, being sick simply means feeling unwell and doesn’t mean you want to vomit. Sick (ie ill or unwell) with a cold is fine to say where I am. All these expressions vary with location. It’s great.

I don't have an issue with it at all. To me its just another word for ill, unwell, sick, under the weather. I don't care what people use.
When I was young, people would use the phrase 'poorly sick'. As in 'are you feeling poorly sick?' It just regional. Never heard it down here (that was in the north east)

Yes I think the same when someone says sick and I hate it as I have emetophobia. Just say you're not well ffs lol

I don’t think it’s American. I’m quite old and have always used the word sick to describe feeling ill (in Ireland). Poorly isn’t a word typically used here. The word ill isn’t much used either in my experience, much less than sick is anyway.

I think it’s mostly in England poorly is used though? Maybe other parts of the UK, I’m not too sure. I’m in Ireland and it isn’t really used. Not used in other English speaking countries like the US either as far as I know

It may be ‘mostly’ used there, not exclusively, but the OP is specifically referring to English people annoying. I’m neither English, nor British, and it is used where I’m from.
And as for the comments regarding people with accents or dialects not being able to pronounce it correctly, pffft.

This term is very well used in hospitals.

Get over it.

I hate it. Also, I was trustee of a charity, and if someone couldn't come to a meeting due to illness, the chair would say they were "poorly-sick" which made me feel sick!

But why? I've never understood it. It's a baby word.

People are allowed to dislike specific words and to say so, btw.

I prefer peely-wally

Ahh I like saying poorly! I don't know why. Sick to me means vomit.

Sick is not an American word, it's used across the English speaking world.

The term 'sick leave' refers to any kind of absense for medical reasons, not just vomiting.

I don't like the word poorly, it's on a par with fib. But I wouldn't say sick either, that's something else 🤮
Unwell or ill will do

I often ask my three year old whether she's feeling "a bit poorly". Sick means vomiting to me, and unwell is for doctors. Poorly-sick really annoys me though!

This is so weird to find irrationally irritating. Where I am from “sick” means vomit, so if I said, “I feel sick” listeners would understand it to mean “I feel nauseous”. It makes far more sense when feeling unwell to say, “I feel poorly”. There’s nothing babyish about the word poorly??

Not in any hospitals I have worked in!

A student doctor here (Ireland) told me her foreign colleagues had difficulty with the answer ‘cat’ given in response to their ‘how are you feeling’ type questions to patients…

Cat means awful in this sense btw.
Language is great!

It's fine.
It's easy to know what's being talked about by the context.

I'm not a fan of it for over 5s, but sick means vomit to most Brits, so YASU (slightly unreasonable!).