For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

[Ruby Vee]

"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?

[brownbook]

I love that English is a changing, growing, adapting, language, but I just hate the word gonna. I can't believe it is an acceptable word! I just now Googled it but couldn't really tell if it is grammatically correct or not!

I refuse to even mention the also frequently used "contraction" of want to.

[Horseshoe, BSN, RN]

I love that English is a changing, growing, adapting, language, but I just hate the word gonna. I can't believe it is an acceptable word! I just now Googled it but couldn't really tell if it is grammatically correct or not!

I refuse to even mention the also frequently used "contraction" of want to.

I had a French teacher who was teaching his toddler to speak both French and English. Sometimes he'd combine languages. "Je gonna manger!" I'm going to eat.

[sevensonnets]

A young guy I know from Jamaica is completely bewildered by some expressions he hears, like "fitna." Apparently it means "fixing to."

[Twinmom06, ASN, APN]

Welp instead of well.....

as in "Welp that just went bad"...HATE IT!!!

[MrChicagoRN, RN]

Ohh, here's a new one on me:

" it was just throwing me off how non shalont she was" (this person was also characterized as "very laxed.")

"Nonchalant" is from the French and means relaxed, easy-going. "Laxed" is from the advertisement, as in "I love my lax." I think.

Yo,yo,yo.

Sounds like you need to lax with a "VaaeKay..." or at least a night of "Netflix and chill".

[KristinWW]

"Prolly" for probably. "Anyways" for anyway. My wrath is quick and fierce when these two hit me.

As for cursive, I had a special education asst. director tell me that OT wasn't necessary for my son with autism, because cursive is never needed anywhere. I asked about learning signatures and she told me that all he has to do is draw an X as his signature. Yes, she still works at the school.

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

"Prolly" for probably. "Anyways" for anyway. My wrath is quick and fierce when these two hit me.

As for cursive, I had a special education asst. director tell me that OT wasn't necessary for my son with autism, because cursive is never needed anywhere. I asked about learning signatures and she told me that all he has to do is draw an X as his signature. Yes, she still works at the school.

Wow . . . that "asst. director" has a knowledge deficit.

[applewhitern, BSN, RN]

I just wish people would learn when it is proper to use "who" and when to use "whom." I see a lot of people using "whom" when it should be just "who." Sounds petty, but drives me bonkers.

[Horseshoe, BSN, RN]

I just saw this done correctly, and it reminded me that on AN, it is often written incorrectly: per se is often spelled "per say."

And "walla (wallah, wa la, and wa-la) instead of voilà .

[amoLucia]

"6 AM in the morning". Really?!! Is that to avoid confusion with 6 AM in the evening?!

To 'HUMANELY' euthanize as versus INHUMANELY euthanize. The Animal Cops Channel says this all the time.

It's funny to me - like is there some specially distinct EQUINE euthanasia method, or canine, or feline, bovine, lupine, etc that they opted NOT to use? That they have to do it HUMANely ... in a HUMAN way.

Also what is an INHUMANELY method like? I guess it would be some terrible tortuous method.

Couldn't they just say 'gently euthanized'?

Just cracks me up!

To JordanRose - Sorry! Guilty as charged! But I only do soooooo infrequently because I'm stumped for another word. I don't use it for any official type documentation. But I'll think twice now because of you.

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

Oh, and can we please get some paragraphs? Reading solid walls of text is just not going to happen. Do people no longer know what the return or enter key is for?

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

To 'HUMANELY' euthanize as versus INHUMANELY euthanize. The Animal Cops Channel says this all the time.

It's funny to me - like is there some specially distinct EQUINE euthanasia method, or canine, or feline, bovine, lupine, etc that they opted NOT to use? That they have to do it HUMANely ... in a HUMAN way.

Also what is an INHUMANELY method like? I guess it would be some terrible tortuous method.

Couldn't they just say 'gently euthanized'?

Just cracks me up!

To JordanRose - Sorry! Guilty as charged! But I only do soooooo infrequently because I'm stumped for another word. I don't use it for any official type documentation. But I'll think twice now because of you.

Well euthanize just means to end a life early, no? So any violent killing method would be inhumane euthanasia. I have heard that some methods used on animals are less humane, like intracardiac injection.