is it oriented or orientated?

[cokie]

what words do you hear consistently mispronounced.....my pet peeve is when people wish to say oriented, as in alert and oriented, and they actually say orientated....where are they getting the extra a and t......

[TCW]

My personal favorite is mines. I can't even think of a sentence to use it in, but usually the same people who put an "s" on mine put an "s" on everything else. e.g., walmarts, kmarts, etc.

Drives me crazy!

[cokie]

just remembered, as long as we are talking about correct grammar, i am guilty of ending my sentences with prepositions. my sister in law taught first grade and we nearly drove her crazy. guess she got tired of correcting us.....want to go with?????

[jadednurse]

How about the word "hang/hung?" I remember someone telling me "pictures are hung, people are hanged." So, using this logic, you'd say "Mr. Smith hanged himself yesterday" not "Mr. Smith hung himself yesterday?"

[TheLionessRN, RN]

Regarding Tara being pronounced with a "tar", it is actually correct in England, or Ireland. Just like we pronounce O'Hara as "o' hair-a" it is actually O' HAR-a". I guess it is just where you grow up.

I live in TN where we have a town called Lafayette. It is pronounce la FAY ette here, and I mean a hard pronunciation on the FAY part. It took me a while to figure it out, believe me.

[shan1976]

I work with this tech who says "O2 STAT", HELLO?! Do we need to get an O2 STATURATION?:roll

Does anyone know where "My Bad" comes from? Instead of "my fault"?

[NICU_Nurse, BSN, RN]

At work, they've posted a sign about avoiding medication errors, and it says:

Presented here for you, BY WAY OF REVIEW, is a list of questions to ask yourself before administering medications.

BY WAY OF REVIEW? Okay, it's presented here, true enough but BY WAY OF REVIEW? This just irks the heck out of me. Like they're intent on sounding super-professional when really they just sound ridiculous.

It's like this resume-review site I went to once- they said, why would you say

"Facilitated interpersonal interactions between customers and staff liasons"

when you really just mean

"Worked as a receptionist in a hair salon"?

[Jussurfin]

Originally posted by cokie

just remembered, as long as we are talking about correct grammar, i am guilty of ending my sentences with prepositions. my sister in law taught first grade and we nearly drove her crazy. guess she got tired of correcting us.....want to go with?????

Contrary to popular belief, not ending sentences in a preposition is not a hard and fast rule although many people will tell you otherwise. It's more a matter of preference and how the sentence "sounds." It is perfectly acceptable to end sentences in prepositions, more so in conversational speech than in the written word.

There are also certain sentences where a preposition is included but not required, e.g. the sentence, "Where is it at?" can be more correctly shortened and the prepositional ending eliminated by simply saying or writing, "Where is it?" But as Winston Churchill once jokingly said, "Ending sentences in prepositions is a habit up with which I will not put."

[huckfinn]

I jist got to AXE you one more time afore I finish my EDUMACATION. You gonna hire me, right?

[gwenith, BSN, RN]

The one that REALLY grinds my teeth MEANINGFULNESS. You probably won't find it outside an educational text. Drove me nuts when studying education. A thing either has meaning or is meaningful but meaningfulness is redundant. Typical of Educational psychology where they seem to want to invent newer longer words. Oh and "wellness" gets me too. Always sounds as if someone has slipped and fallen in a hole.

[TammyWilson808]

I hear this a lot here in Hawaii: birfday, not birthday. Or it's

Valentime's instead of Valentine's Day.

[ScarlettRN]

Around here, you don't get Chicken Pocks, some people get Chicken Pops! Is it a new pastry from Kellogg? Does one frost it with gravy?

[cokie]

had a discussion with my dh one day about shrimp. he was going to the store to buy shrimps. i told him that i do believe that shrimp is shrimp, whether there are one or many. much like deer. well, he got out the dictionary and taught me not to argue with him about correct english....it's shrimps. was my face red, as english is my mother tongue, but not his. he knows the dictionary better than i.........chicken pops...that one had me lol. my grown neice says "a while back ago" and "they're well off to do". she just made these terms up...cracks me up.