Timeline for "Sick" or "ill"?
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| Jun 10, 2011 at 12:41 | vote | accept | Tomalak | ||
| Jun 10, 2011 at 11:02 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 25, 2011 at 13:37 | comment | added | Noldorin | @msanford: If you reread my first paragraph I actually mention that. :) Given that I am a Brit, I can verify that. | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 4:03 | comment | added | msanford | @Noldorin Your assertion that the two are synonymous is only correct for North American English: Brits use sick as a synonym for "vomit", both the noun and the verb. | |
| Mar 20, 2011 at 22:30 | comment | added | Noldorin | Oh ok, fair enough. :) | |
| Mar 20, 2011 at 21:48 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | @Noldorin: I didn't think you were implying anything like that! I just added it as an interesting fact (I was wondering myself and looked it up). | |
| Mar 20, 2011 at 19:08 | comment | added | Noldorin | @Cerberus: I wasn't implying they were etymologically related, but they have meant the same thing for a long time. I know of no earlier meaning of the word. (If there is one, it's pretty irrelevant anyway.) | |
| Mar 20, 2011 at 12:14 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | Surprisingly, ill is not etymologically related to evil, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, though they have been synonymous from the 12th century. | |
| Mar 20, 2011 at 2:15 | comment | added | Noldorin | @Tomalak: Indeed, those terms inherit from the older definition. | |
| Mar 20, 2011 at 1:37 | comment | added | Tomalak | Yes, that also explains usages like ill-formed or ill-advised. | |
| Mar 20, 2011 at 0:22 | history | answered | Noldorin | CC BY-SA 2.5 |