is it oriented or orientated?

Audreyfay · Apr 24, 2003

what really gets me is "na-zha". everywhere...even the news, everyone. can we not say nausea anymore? it's na-ze-a!!!

Audreyfay · Apr 24, 2003

P.S. Thanks for letting me vent! The Sanna meter was also a source of irritation as well. At last! Others who understand the fly that bugs me!

Brita01 · Apr 24, 2003

Originally posted by 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.

Shrimps? That just sounds wrong. I always thought the plural was shrimp.

PennyLane, RN · Apr 24, 2003

Originally posted by Jussurfin
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."

That is such a great quote! :chuckle

NICU_Nurse, BSN, RN · Apr 27, 2003

Originally posted by Brita01
Shrimps? That just sounds wrong. I always thought the plural was shrimp.

Well, you're half right. :>) According to Merriam-Webster, it is "shrimps" OR "shrimp" (plural). As in,

I'm going to buy some shrimp.

or

I'm going to buy shrimps.

Here they say 'scrimp'. I'mma go get somma 'dem scrimps.

NICU_Nurse, BSN, RN · Apr 27, 2003

Originally posted by Brita01
Shrimps? That just sounds wrong. I always thought the plural was shrimp.

Well, you're half right. :>) According to Merriam-Webster, it is "shrimps" OR "shrimp" (plural). As in,

I'm going to buy some shrimp.

or

I'm going to buy shrimps.

Here they say 'scrimp'. I'mma go get somma 'dem scrimps.

celestlyn · May 19, 2003

And how about 'lucy-aner' instead of 'louisiana'. And by the way, Oregonians live in 'Or-ee-gun', not 'or-EE-gone'.

ACNORN · May 19, 2003

I have to add it makes me crazy when I hear people say "Idear" instead of "idea"

And I try not to laugh when a co-worker says she is going to "nip it in the butt" versus "nip it in the bud".

On a patient satisfaction survey, one patient thanked us for helping him get rid of his "staff" infection. I laughed so hard. I think I've had a "staff" infection before too!!

Mithrah · May 19, 2003

I hear dilation mispronounced by instructors. Instead of die-lay-shun. I hear dill-luh-tay-shun.

I know the British pronounce capillaries, kuh-pill-uh-rees.

cokie · May 19, 2003

heMOGlemin........

Huq · May 19, 2003

"I know the British pronounce capillaries, kuh-pill-uh-rees."

Not quite Mithrah.

CAP-ill-a-rees.

English English....stress the first syllable.

capil-AIR-REES

American English...stress the last syllable.

We use dilation AND dilatation, two words which are interchangeable.

rebel_red · May 19, 2003

Originally posted by deebug
Pet peeves: Libary, instead of library (my mother's downfall) and birfday (my father-in-law's downfall). I feel like saying "I goen down to da libary to reed bout human birf an all dat"

:roll :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Oh Liberry does it to me every time! My personal thing is I can never remember (phonetics alert) if it is syl va deen or syl va dine.......

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