is it oriented or orientated?

azgirl · Apr 18, 2003

I just had that today. I said I was being oriented to the floor and had someone correct me that I was being orientated.

Jedav · Apr 18, 2003

I love it when I hear "smoking sensation" instead of cessation. Hello??!! Then if you say it back to them correctly, they STILL don't get it!

liberalrn · Apr 18, 2003

How about winda for window...grrrr. Warsh and wahhhter, melk instead of milk. "Go by my ma's"....ugh!!!!! I always picture these people standing next to their mother's house. Axe for ask. I did good (yes, until you spoke) or even worse (not heard much)--that dress looks well on you. (funny, I didn't know that dresses could be taken ill!) Unretouched (as in pics).

I don't mind colloquilisms (sp?)--"he fell out at home" (he lost consciousness). How about conscience instead of conscious?

See that one in charting sometimes. The pt staes he lost conscienceness (uh?)--maybe he just fell out at home!

Huq · Apr 18, 2003

Belinda.

Perhaps your instructor is English. We do have abDOEmens. Our newborn have umbiLIKEal cords. Our females have vagINEas and when anyone looses their appendix they have had an appendicectomy. Drive you crazy? Imagine how we feel about Americanisms. (Is there such a word?)

Bekka_Lass · Apr 18, 2003

How about vomiking for vomiting? Or the nunsiknoseof for the none I know of allergies question?:roll :roll :roll

I say oriented:D

LPN_mn · Apr 18, 2003

I am originally from Arkansas and moved to Minnesota 8 years ago. This is not related to nursing but I always hear people hear say borrow me $5.00 instead of loan me $5.00 drives me crazy when I hear people say that.

cokie · Apr 18, 2003

i moved from minnesota to california and had to learn that when you borrow money to someone, you are actually loaning them money. we use borrow for both ends of the deal. as in "hey, borrow me a dollar would ya????" now i know many things that i didn't know when being raised in minnesota, such as the thing that on looks at, a picture, is not pronounced the same way as the thing that one pours water out of, a pitcher. also, it is not considered polite to just show up at someones door without calling. who knew......back to the words....how about amulate for ambulate, or inshulin for insulin. also heard someone call robitussin, rubbytussin. as in vicks vapo rub.....

mamabear · Apr 18, 2003

One that really irkes me: DOO-co-lax instead of DULL-co-lax:(

Do people think the manufacturers made a typo, but stuck with it anyway? Or is this just a Chicago-area thing:confused:

cokie · Apr 18, 2003

ok, now i am confused, after looking at the dictionary entry after my first post. so if i write that the patient is oriented to person, would i read that outloud as being orientated to person.....??????because in actual usage i can understand orientation, such as what we all go through when we change jobs (which i hate,by the way), i'm still not convinced.........

mamabear · Apr 18, 2003

I've always seen it as "pt alert & oriented to all 3 spheres".:)

nursedawn67, LPN · Apr 18, 2003

Originally posted by Disablednurse
Mine is people wanting to use the telefoam instead of telephone........Oldtimers disease instead of Alzheimer's disease

I have even hear it pronounced AlTheimers disease!

cokie · Apr 18, 2003

now some say A + O x 4. can't remember what the fourth one is at this moment. i learned 3. anywoo, the post from the nurse complaining about diss, dem and deese for this, them and these, are you by any chance in sterns co...??? my first career was speech path. and we worked by a county in mn where these pronounciations were just accepted, so we didn't even try to correct them.. is that a kick or what. some peoples who are esl put the emPHAsis on the wrong syLAble, and i am cool with that. but to add extra syllables or change around letters, that is the one that makes me cring.....exspeccially orientated....which by the by, never bothered me until my older brother pointed it out to me. the funny thing about this is he named his eldest "tara" after gone with the wind, but they pronounced it like the tar in the road, and it is terra, as in earth.....cracks me up......still laughing at all the posts here.......