is it oriented or orientated?

Liann · Apr 16, 2003

Theirselves instead of themselves.

Malaprops like "she sure hit the nail on the nose"

And other funnies, like....we had a college student as a patient with some kind of heart trouble. I asked her student nurse if it was congenital...and he said...No, I think she was born with it......LOL

mother/babyRN, RN · Apr 16, 2003

The correct word is oriented..

sanakruz, ADN · Apr 16, 2003

Here in California it's FUSTRATED-

I find this very FRUSTRATING.

CRNI · Apr 16, 2003

How about "antecubical" when they mean the antecubital fossa? I'm an IV nurse - drives me crazy!

P_RN, ADN, RN · Apr 16, 2003

Lambidectomy instead of laminectomy

I have sinus instead of sinusitis or sinus infection.

grocer store instead of grocery store

Waw-marks instead of Walmart

Tarjicks instead of Target.....on and on and on again!

But one I love is Eating Meeting! Instead of the dull meeting with luncheon to follow.....

Enright · Apr 16, 2003

Prostrate instead of Prostate?!!!!

Kaylesh · Apr 16, 2003

Love reading all these.. Try being a Massachusetts born and bred RN and moving to Scotland.. Where things are pronounced differently.. especially parts of the body, and diseases are spelt differently as well.Makes for a confusing handover LOL.. I have actually been stopped while giving a verbal handover to be asked to say that again.. Im thinking.. what on earth have I said.. It was regard duodenal ulcers...

So a lot of pronounciations are right depending where on this great earth you are living at the time ..

Take Care

Kay(Kaylesh)

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Apr 16, 2003

My husband's first language is French (not that that is an excuse!! :roll ) and he has a few good ones. He always says "sphincster" which makes me :rotfl: ... He calls Ms. Warwick of Sixties pop-music fame "Dye-on"... corrected that one a million times, and can't figure out why he does it, because in French it's pronounced the right way! And when he asks me if I'm going to pass the vacuum, I almost pass a kidney stone! Yeah, I'm gonna pass it... and keep right on walkin'!

ShortFuse_LPN, LPN · Apr 17, 2003

Originally posted by OrthoNutter
Is she a Kiwi (New Zealander)?? If so, that's just the way they say ate. Like sex is six and six is sex lol

Nope, she's from right here in Southern Illinois. I have heard quite a lot of people say it but I am around her almost everyday. LOL

ShortFuse_LPN, LPN · Apr 17, 2003

Originally posted by memphispanda
You didn't happen to go to school in Memphis did you? Because I have an instructor who says that (and um-bih-LIKE-us instead of umbilicus).

:chuckle No, I went to school in Illinois.

I almost forgot.(don't know how cause this makes me crazy) My DH says death instead of deaf. And now my daughter has started it too!! :rolleyes:

HoustonRN · Apr 17, 2003

Probably more than you wanted to know, but- those that say birfday instead of birthday and death instead of deaf, (and ledder for leather) probably have an undiagnosed speech/swallowing problem involving the soft palate. (or maybe one of their parents did and they just learned it that way!)

Mine

dice for die

loose for lose and visa versa

Arthur for author

"High blood" (high blood what!? high blood sugar, high blood pressure??

Flynurse · Apr 17, 2003

Originally posted by 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......

OMG....I thought I was the only one! I absolutely LOATH it when people say orienTAted!!!! I could understand if you reported to me at shift change that you orienTAted the patient when she was confused. But it is not Alert and OrienTAted.

BTW, DON'T complain to me when you mispronounce this word that immigrants should learn English before they come to USA. LOOK at their examples! :eek: