Q: Ad nauseum

[sagehen]

>What do nauseated people say WRT their condition?
>In the home, I learned to say:
>
>"I'm sick at the stomach."
>
>I've neither heard precisely this phrase outside of my
>family nor have I read it anywhere. So, I'm wondering
>whether anyone uses it. I have in mind what people say
>when they're *not* using one of the many slang terms.
>
>BTW, has anyone else seen the lexicon of slang terms
>used for this condition and its consequences in Strine
>English?
>
>-Wilson Gray
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We always said "sick at my stomach" or "nauseated" (never "nauseous," which
seems to have become the most commonly-heard usurper of the above).
AM
What do the Ozzies say?


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