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Tangentially related to that HP Brit Picking secret, is sicked up an Americanism? I keep on running into to it in fics, and I've never heard it said over here in the UK - we'd either say they were sick, or they threw up. Sicked up sounds childish and wrong to my ears.

One of the fics I keep seeing it in is Of a Linear Circle, which has a horrible amount of Americanisms (seriously, you're not a bad writer so why not get a brit picker?), so I was was wondering if I was right with my assumption.

Not that I've ever heard in my whole damn life.

-an American

I always thought that was a Britishism!

Same! If you'd asked I would've said it was a UK think without a second thought. I'm fairly sure I mostly see it in Brit fandoms. Weird.

For the record, I'm Canadian, and it's not a west-coast Canadian thing.

Can confirm it's also not an east coast Canadian thing, either.

I don't think it's American. You're more likely to see: vomit, throw up, barf, etc.

As a northeastern American, I have never heard of such a phrase...wait...it sounds like the kind of thing one would say to refer to a baby if they threw up? Like the baby got sick-up....nah? I don't think I've ever heard it in my conversational circles.

Shit, nonnie...now I've gotta think about this.

I've heard spit up for babies.

ayrt

yeah, that's what I was thinking of!

Nope. "Sick up" is UK English and not American at all. Kind of old-fashioned UK English though, so probably your American writers are basing their slang off old British TV and/or books.

NAYRT If it is then it's a regional term because I've never heard it in my life or read it in any era of novels.

If you look downthread, you'll see that The Guardian, The Register and The Daily Mail have used the term in the last 3 years. What region would that make it?

I really don't know. I thought it was an Americanism that people had started using recently tbh, none of my friends or colleagues use it and I've never seen it in any British novels of any era.

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(Anonymous) - 2020-05-05 12:51 (UTC) - Expand

I'm leaning towards it's a posh boy thing, which means we're all free to despise its usage in the way we all seem inclined to.

Campaign to stop people using it? Anyone with me?

You know you can google this shit, right?

You know that responding to someone to "google shit" when they are just making conversation is rude as fuck, right?

Besides, you can google shit and get pages that don't agree with one another. (I know. I've been on the other end of this, trying to figure out what isn't British slang.)

Yeah, sounds like you don't know how to google shit.

But on the other hand, there sure is a lot of conversation going on in this thread and not just a lot of "No, that's not an American thing" with no response from OP or anyone else.

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(Anonymous) - 2020-05-05 15:32 (UTC) - Expand

Dude, they're making conversation. Sometimes it's just more interesting to ask people and see if they have the answer. You know, socialize a little.

Be quiet you tone-deaf fuck, people are clearly enjoying responding.

I've never heard "enjoying" to mean "repeating the same things over and over without looking to see or respond to what anyone else in the thread has already said" before. That must be one of your wacky Americanisms.

Maybe it's an American taking one British thing and thinking it translates to another? Like, in the UK, you do say "sick" for the actual substance, right? "There's sick in my hair." In the U.S. we'd say "There's vomit in my hair." And since we also say "vomited" maybe someone is assuming that "sicked" is the equivalent?

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/vml-why-aaaaaaaargh/1494148
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/08/dell_technologies_q2_2018/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/sep/09/medicineandhealth.society
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7336927/Aldi-customer-shares-hilarious-picture-pitiful-breakfast-sandwich.html

Looks like a Brit thing. Are you sure you're from the UK?

Pretty certain. My birth certificate and passport proclaim me as such, and I've never lived anywhere else.

I wonder if it's a regionalism? Or maybe a posh boy thing?

Also, I clicked on the links to check them out and had flashbacks to twenty years ago when I used to work in marketing and read the paper version of Campaign.

So thank you for that. ;-)

I'm American and have also never heard it before, but I could see it maybe being a super old timey thing, from like the late 1800s/early 1900s or something maybe, there are a lot of phrases I see in things written back then that we don't use anymore.

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