You should have been a middle-school English teacher. You have the pedantic outrage at changes to English down pat.

This literally makes me nauseous.

seatackled, I laughed out loud reading your comment @2. And I swear to God, just as I was going to this comments page, I was thinking of "the Joe Biden literally."

As a Brit, I don't think I've ever heard anyone, in any country at all, say "nauseated". EVERYONE says "nauseous" when their implication is that they want to vomit. There's a bunch of stuff I do get grammar nazi about, but this is not on my list.

@4, as a grammar nazi myself, I have to confess that I should be disappointed in myself. I have always used "nauseous" to mean "nauseated." I'm sure somewhere along the line I was taught the distinction and it just slipped past me.

@5, I'm someone who's keenly aware of the difference between "disinterested" and "uninterested," and of how nine times out of 10, the former is used to mean the latter, even by literate people. For me, the word "disinterested" has become radioactive. If I'm using it correctly (in my mind), I'm not making myself clear to my reader; if I'm using it incorrectly, I'm annoying myself, and I might as well just use "uninterested" or another word.

God, this is all making me feel... Oh, what's the word? Sick in the stomach.

The vomiting emoji should replace all equally revolting images of Donald Trump.

What 5 said. Also, there's not one misplaced hyphen in the quoted material but three. Years of misuse have eroded the rule that a hyphen is not used to connect an adverb to its word, whether that word is a verb or a noun.

Almost everyone says "I could care less" when they mean "I couldn't care less," and our society long ago accepted "continental United States" as meaning the same thing as the "contiguous United States" - both of which I find nautious and make me feel nauseated.

Interesting. I have no memory of ever having encountered the term nauseous used in any other way than as a synonym to nauseated.

There are other brands of dictionary out there. Try American Heritage dictionary, they've always had a reputation for not defining words by usage, but rather by what the proper people say the usage should be.

Anyone want to play spot the errors in this post? You won't have to get far to start -- have a look at the title of the post. I believe the dictionary has always allowed the use of the term "nauseous" for "nauseating," but that's not what the story's about (hint: it's about "nauseated"). You should really tighten up your game if your game is calling people out.

That being said, I'm on board. I hate the misuse of the term nauseous as well.

Well thanks at least for fixing the headline.

I think part of the problem lies in the English language's endless and delightfully inconsistent number of suffixes and prefixes.

For example, the word anxious is regularly and correctly used to describe a feeling of anxiety, anxiousness, etc rather than an adjective denoting an anxiety producing substance or condition. It is entirely internally consistent within the English language for the speaker to see nauseous as following the same pattern. Interestingly, I don't see nauseous as a description of the feeling of nausea as being exactly the same as nauseated. Nauseous refers to a state, but nauseated refers to a state arising from some cause. The English language is always pushing and pulling internally, sometimes even from changes or trends begun hundreds of years ago. Language Nazis have been trying to get it under control for a long long time for varying reasons, but I think it can be misguided when an effort veers away from seeking improved clarity to control for its own sake.

When I hear someone say that they’re nauseous, I tell them not to be so hard on themselves. If asked if I lay, I reply that I’m not a hen. Yes, I was I middle school English teacher, but when my supervisiing teacher asked if I was doing good, I knew that I was in the wrong profession. Yes, language evolves and changes, as it should. But the grammatically incorrect are often college educated, intelligent people, who should know better.

The Nauseous usta nauseate me
but with Everyone doing it ...
perhaps I'll get better.

Until you started writing posts like this, Dave, I think I had always assumed that people with adventurous taste in music would tend to be non-prescriptivists.

Inflammable means flammable? What a country!