"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?
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:
While non-standard usage, both conversate and irregardless are real, and becoming more accepted. Having said that, I have to say that I completely agree with you as to all three.
And while we're on the subject, whatever happened to the comma, particularly the Oxford comma.
While non-standard usage, both conversate and irregardless are real, and becoming more accepted. Having said that, I have to say that I completely agree with you as to all three.
And while we're on the subject, whatever happened to the comma, particularly the Oxford comma.
I have no idea what 'NETY' is, but I agree with you SO, so, so much. There are many, many other common errors that I could point out, but it's kind of been covered in another thread not long ago. The language has been in decline for a long time, in my humble opinion.
I had to edit this after seeing multiple comments about someone calling themselves - or a patient - a 'women'. Since I've been single for (longer than I'd like, honestly), it's blown my mind to see women say, on dating sites, 'I am a women who...'. My policy is to never contact anyone who thinks they are a 'women'. :^)
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.
Oh My God yes. Then instead of than is as inexplicable to me as the people who don't understand woman vs. women. How do you say it OUT LOUD? I've never heard anyone say 'he wuz bigger then me'. You pronounce it THAN, so why don't you spell it THAN?
roser13, ASN, RN
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I used to believe the same about orientate. Unfortunately, it actually is a word and I have been corrected many times. I still hate it.