Timeline for Is there any difference between being ill and sick?
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| Sep 16, 2018 at 18:36 | comment | added | Aliaksei | We can use ngram to count frequecy of these words books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 17:56 | comment | added | TimR | He's ill or he's sick are both used in AmE. ill is a tad more formal. | |
| Jun 23, 2014 at 9:23 | comment | added | hunter | This is interesting. My own (American) perspective is that "I'm ill" is not used very much at all. | |
| Jan 29, 2014 at 11:44 | comment | added | starsplusplus | Also when you're using "feel" instead of "be", "sick" is much more specific. "I feel sick" means specifically "I feel nauseous" whereas "I feel ill" refers to generally feeling unwell. | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 21:39 | comment | added | Ryan Haber | Yeah, in the USA, it can also mean generally being unwell, in addition to vomiting. But we wouldn't use get ill to mean vomiting in the USA. | |
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| Jan 23, 2013 at 21:10 | history | answered | Hugo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |