In case you were wondering...

I looked up how to spell nauseous and found this "usage problem" listed on the website:

Usage Note: Traditional critics have insisted that nauseous is properly used only to mean “causing nausea” and that it is incorrect to use it to mean “affected with nausea,” as in Roller coasters make me nauseous. In this example, nauseated is preferred by 72 percent of the Usage Panel. Curiously, though, 88 percent of the Panelists prefer using nauseating in the sentence The children looked a little green from too many candy apples and nauseating (not nauseous) rides. Since there is a lot of evidence to show that nauseous is widely used to mean “feeling sick,” it appears that people use nauseous mainly in the sense in which it is considered incorrect. In its “correct” sense it is being supplanted by nauseating.

It looks like said "Usage Panel" votes on the correct usage for certain words. Who knew? And how to you get on the Usage Panel?

I feel like my HS English teacher would've liked to have done that if she wasn't sitting in Jackson smoking 3 packs a day and striking fear into HS seniors that if we spelled a word wrong or used a word incorrectly in our college papers we would fail out.