I should point out that "be sick" in British English is for the action of vomiting, not the state of being ill with something that tends to make you vomit. As in "He was sick on the floor and I had to clean it up".
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/language: Being sick and being ill
08/04/2010 05:14:36 PM
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Not too much, generally.
08/04/2010 05:19:37 PM
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No, they are not the same
08/04/2010 08:02:00 PM
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AN illness is specific; BEING ill is not, I believe; as adjectives I belive "sick" and "ill" equal.
09/04/2010 03:41:10 AM
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UK says "ill" for unwell and "be sick" for "to vomit". US says "sick" for "unwell".
09/04/2010 08:44:02 AM
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I knew it!
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09/04/2010 09:29:23 AM
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Uh... If someone says they're going to "be sick" in the US, believe me, we interpret it like you do. *NM*
09/04/2010 06:30:40 PM
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