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"PT" means Physical Therapist. If you cannot bring yourself to type out "patient", the correct abbreviation is "pt".

It's LOSE your license, not "loose" your license. I've seen this one so often I'm starting to type "loose" myself.

"Needless to say" means it is so obvious that you don't even need to point it out. Why do people persist on using this when it is neither obvious or even remotely likely?

Why is "NETY" even still a thing?

Specializes in Wound care; CMSRN.

"Tow the line" or tow that line, dates back to a time when barges were towed by a bunch of guys on a rope or tow line. It was nasty and hard and didn't pay worth a crap; kind of like nursing.

Specializes in retired LTC.

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There are exceptions to the apostrophe use - its is the possessive (without the apostrophe) while it's is the contraction for 'it is'.

And if the word ends in an 's', one only uses an apostrophe, like Moses' tablet to show possession.

Also the use of IRregardless. It used to be no such word as irregardless. However I do think the official 'grammar police' have softened on this, altho my spellchecker is still catching its use.

"Tow the line" or tow that line, dates back to a time when barges were towed by a bunch of guys on a rope or tow line. It was nasty and hard and didn't pay worth a crap; kind of like nursing.

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There is some confusion between 'toe the line' and the frequently seen misspelling 'tow the line'. The 'tow' version is no doubt encouraged by the fact that ropes or cables on ships are often called lines and that 'tow lines' are commonplace nautical items.

The earlier meaning of 'to toe the line' was to position one's toes next to a marked line in order to be ready to start a race, or some other undertaking. In the 19th century, we wouldn't have been limited to lines when it came to placing our feet, but would have had a choice of what to toe - a mark, scratch, crack or trig [a line or small trench]. These were all then in use in 'toe the ...' phrases. The earliest version we know about is from The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan, 1813, by 'Hector Bull-Us' - known to his family and friends as James Paulding:

"He began to think it was high time to toe the mark."

'Toe the line' - the meaning and origin of this phrase

Toe the line - Grammarist

"TOE the Line," NOT "TOW the Line"

Specializes in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
Why is millennial-bashing still a thing?

It is still a thing because rampant "Special Snowflake Syndrome" is leaving a massive blemish on the Millennial Generation. :no:

I go berserk over cloths instead of clothes, stripped shirts, yard sells, dinning tables, alot, awhile, ect. instead of etc., and then instead of than. Then there are people who turn up missing and those who are actively working threw there problems.

I saw an obituary in the local paper for a man who was currently living in Chicago but was formally from Atlanta.

Specializes in Med Surg/ICU/Psych/Emergency/CEN/retired.

Then there are people who turn up missing and those who are actively working threw there problems.

:no: :sarcastic: :eek:

Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

Please stop "orientated" one is oriented and is on orientation while orienting. One does not orientate:sour:

We also do not "conversate". People converse with each other and have conversations.

Irregardless is is also incorrect. The word is regardless. Irregardless literally is saying without regard without:sarcastic:

Specializes in Hospice.
It is still a thing because rampant "Special Snowflake Syndrome" is leaving a massive blemish on the Millennial Generation. :no:

Just as it did on genY-ers, genX-ers, boomers, The Greatest, and so on back. It's not a generational thing - it's a developmental stage, just like adolescence.

End of de-rail ... carry on

Specializes in Med Surg/ICU/Psych/Emergency/CEN/retired.

Please RSVP. RSVP is French for "Repondez-vous s'il vous plait", literally "Respond please". So putting please in front of RSVP is redundant: Please respond please. :mad:

My pet peeve is apostrophe love.

One doctor = doctor.

More than one doctor = doctors.

More than one doctor does NOT = doctor's.

More than one patient does NOT = patient's.

Are they just not teaching this anymore, or is this an auto correct thing?

Don't even get me started on people with advanced degrees who don't understand when to use the words your versus you're, and there, their, and they're.

People used to be taught proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. in school. But these days, the teachers don't know proper usage because there are at least 2 or 3 generations of teachers whose teachers did not teach them proper usage.

Read "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America".

My pet peeve is "I could care less." No, it is "I could NOT care less." To say "I could care less" means that, yes indeed, you could actually care even less than you do now.

applewhiteRN you beat me to it!! This one drives me crazy. My husband says it sometimes just to get under my skin. grrrrr

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