Anonymous  +  385054 Wed, 27 Jun 07 06:54 PM In British English, ill means unwell. Ill is most common in predicative position. She couldn’t come because she was ill. Before a noun, many British people prefer to use sick. She spent years looking after her sick husband. Be sick can mean ‘vomit’. I feel sick. Where is the bathroom?                                                                                                                      Anonymous Nouns, Difference Between, British English, British People

	Pucca  +  385058 Wed, 27 Jun 07 07:10 PM Thanks Anon! I thought there was no difference between them! Pucca Joined on Sun, Aug 27 2006 Spain Senior Member 2,972

	Philip  +  385397 Thu, 28 Jun 07 04:00 PM An aside:  Turkish-speaking users here will chuckle to learn that I used "ill" exclusively while teaching English to young teens in Turkey.  [sick sounds just like a "bad" word in Turkish .] Philip Joined on Thu, Jun 23 2005 Veteran Member 8,604 At reise er at leve! - H. C. Andersen Difference Between, Teaching English

	Doll  +  385979 Fri, 29 Jun 07 11:30 PM Lol. Philip you are right, when I use that word people look at my face very strangely but I found a solution. I pronunce it wrong. Though its pronunciation is /sık/, I pronunce it as /'sıg/. Doll Joined on Sat, Mar 10 2007 Senior Member 2,806 Difference Between, Pronunciation

	MrPedantic  +  385990 Sat, 30 Jun 07 12:08 AM  Anonymous wrote: Be sick can mean ‘vomit’. I feel sick. Where is the bathroom?                                                                                                                   To clarify, for BrE: 1. I am sick = I am ill, I am unwell. 2. I am being sick = I am vomiting. 3. I was sick = either I was ill or I vomited. 4. I feel sick = I feel as if I'm about to vomit (and may well do so). 5. I felt sick = I felt as if I was about to vomit (but probably didn't). MrP MrPedantic Joined on Tue, Oct 12 2004 Veteran Member 13,616 ...opella forensis / adducit febris... Difference Between

	khoff  +  386026 Sat, 30 Jun 07 01:37 AM Is it also true in BrE that "sick" can be used as a noun, as in "Careful -- don't step in the sick"?  khoff Joined on Sun, Mar 6 2005 Senior Member 3,216 Native speaker of American English (but not a grammar expert) Nouns, Difference Between

	MrPedantic  +  386389 Sat, 30 Jun 07 11:38 PM Yes indeed, e.g. "The troubled pop princess, who spent a month in rehab earlier this year, was then carried out of the bar sobbing and covered in sick". MrP MrPedantic Difference Between

	MrPedantic  +  394487 Sat, 21 Jul 07 12:00 AM You're welcome, A/man! But don't forget: it's "this information". All the best, MrP MrPedantic