Sick at/to/on/in

Beverly Flanigan flanigan at OHIO.EDU
Mon May 1 17:14:41 UTC 2006


At 12:23 PM 5/1/2006, you wrote:
>On May 1, 2006, at 9:11 AM, i wrote:
>
>>On May 1, 2006, at 6:55 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>>... as for being sick, i can be sick at my stomach or at the stomach,
>>though i *think* i'm more likely to use the first.
>
>and more likely to use "to" than "at", though both are possible for me.
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"Sick to my stomach" in Minnesota growing up, just as Joan reports.

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