Q: Ad nauseum

[Wilson Gray]

Curse you, Horn Baron! ;-)

-Wilson

On 4/30/06, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 7:21 AM -0500 4/30/06, Sally Donlon wrote:
> >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.
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> >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."
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> Same in NYC, c. 1950.  But we said "ad nauseam" rather than "nauseum"  ;-)
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> LH
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> >On Apr 30, 2006, at 12:40 AM, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
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> >>>What do nauseated people say WRT their condition?
> >>>In the home, I learned to say:
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> >>>"I'm sick at the stomach."
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> >>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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