Q: Ad nauseum

[Sally Donlon]

Growing up in South Louisiana (but with a mother from Hoboken, NJ),
we always used "sick to my stomach" or "sick to his stomach," etc.

As in, " I can't go to school, Mom, because I'm sick to my stomach."
Or, "She left because she felt sick to her stomach."

sod


On Apr 30, 2006, at 12:40 AM, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:

>> What do nauseated people say WRT their condition?
>> In the home, I learned to say:
>>
>> "I'm sick at the stomach."
>
> Supposedly there is regional variation, I think.
>
> When I was a young one, in Detroit MI, I usually heard (and used)
> "sick to
> one's stomach" (e.g., "I'm sick to my stomach"). However I also
> heard "sick
> to the stomach", and also (less frequently) "sick at the/one's
> stomach",
> "sick in the/one's stomach", and "sick on the/one's stomach"; I can't
> remember the detailed breakdown (which preposition usually went
> with "the"
> vs. "one's", etc.) or demographics.
>
> -- Doug Wilson
>
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