Poorly

[Everythingisnumbersnow]

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.

I was referring to the poster with the NHS reference, not you! 😘

I'm with you, I really loathe 'poorly'. It sounds so measly mouthed and euphemistic to me. And it can mean anything from having a slight cold to seriously ill.

@Everythingisnumbersnow Oh dear OP

You've gotten a lot of posters upset. They'll be taking to their beds with poorly heads at this rate.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Can't believe the posters being so offended by OPs dislike of a word, calm
yourself.

She's clearly quite poorly in the head!

Are you ‘joking’ that a poster has a mental illness?

No, I wasn't. It was just a lighthearted remark as a retort to her comment (now deleted) about me, saying that the reason medical professionals use the words "poorly" are for patients/people like me. I didn't think her comment was called for IMHO.

I don't joke about mental.illness, I've experienced enough of it myself. 😳

What did you mean by ‘poorly in the head’?

I do think it’s a bit childish and it makes me cringe a bit to hear an adult say it about another adult because I do associate it with saying to a child, ‘Aww, are you feeling poorly?’ or whatever, but I appreciate this is my problem and I don’t care enough to post a thread.

I also don’t like hearing adults say they’ve got a ‘tummy’ ache or when they say ‘bockle’ ‘hospickle’ etc, but each to their own!

Sick is really ill, requiring hospital

Poorly is just feeling rough

I dunno. Not kind or something. Why are you picking it apart so much? She wasn't particularly pleasant in the deleted remark, but I'd never use rude language that was making fun of mental illness 😑

Yorkshire lass here and l say it.. my family and friends say it.
" Oh I'm feeling so poorly"
Why would l say I'm feeling sick when l don't want to vomit?.

Well you did. I work in this field and detest the ‘are you ok’ type jibes too. Where people accuse others of being mentally ill, as an insult.

And this is why hospitals should just use grown up words instead

Thankfully, in my many many years working in NHS hospitals, we don’t use language like this.

Ok, sorry if it came across as not nice. I wasn't happy with the remark she had made if I'm honest but obviously that doesn't excuse what I said

Anyway, as I said, maybe she shouldn't have implied that I was someone who medical professionals might talk down to... 😑

Sick as a catchall term for ill-health is an Americanism. Unwell or under the weather, if you are opposed to poorly.

No, sick as a general term is used lots of places, not just America.

I don’t like the way it’s used as an adjective either. It’s an adverb. “I’m feeling poorly” - the same as the word “ill” in fact.

Absolutely agree.
Americans using the phrase "got sick " ...or.."are you sick " ..a lot .
I have visions of people throwing up all over the place.

YABVU.

Poorly is a perfectly good word.

"Sick" is what some people call 'vomit'.

100% agree OP! Poorly is such a whiny and childish sounding way to say that you're ill.

Eeee she came o'er reyt badly.

I suppose it will have come about as an answer to a question phrased as "How are you doing/feeling?" Or "How goes it?" To any of which the answers could be well, unwell, ill or poorly.

When we say "How are you?" it's like a shorter form of the above. Same as how the French will ask, "Ca va?"

Why can't we have a number of synonyms meaning more or less the same thing?

I suppose it will have come about as an answer to a question phrased as "How are you doing/feeling?" Or "How goes it?" To any of which the answers could be well, unwell, ill or poorly.

Unless it’s someone very close to you, the usual answer to the question ‘How are you doing?’ should be ‘Fine, thanks’ 😉

Where I am at least, ‘How are you?’ is mostly used as a greeting, not a real question. But, as always, it’s probably different elsewhere.