So, it's bad enough when people make obvious grammar/usage flaws in places like allnurses, blogs, etc. What I find both more entertaining and somewhat depressing is when I come across it at work. Our unit director is awful about homonyms, and it get embarrassing sometimes, when I wonder who else might notice her slip ups (i.e., someone who is not a lowly floor nurse).
My favorites that I've come across recently:
"Check at nurse's station before entering room"
"Unit Counsel"
And the one that I could barely restrain myself from asking her if it was a purposeful pun:
A binder with the label "Opportunity's for Learning"
So, anyone have any others that they have come across specifically in the workplace, for all the world to see?
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When I read the "Check at the nurses' station", I immediately thought of a literal check! Whoopee! They're paying me to go to the nurse's station. What a place!
We had a secretary who made a sign to post on an isolation room door- "Please enter through anti-room." Unfortunately, it was up for a day or so until I looked, did a double take and took it down and posted the sign again with the proper word.
In #1 the apostrophe should go after the "s", not before it. Unless, of course, one nurse has declared the station as her very own domain, which I have been known to do from time to time :)
Yep, #2 should be "council", since they're not counseling anyone about anything.
Now I need to go and look up rules regarding quotation marks and commas, because I'm terribly afraid that I've gotten it backwards and the commas should be inside the quotes. Where's my fourth grader's Language Arts book when I need it?
My hubby has a horrible time keeping the various forms of its, there, and your straight. I mock him for it all the time.
As far as goofy sayings go, it does not matter how many times we've corrected him, my twelve year old step-son says "You've got to be joking me!" Even though he's now twenty, my family still calls meatballs "meat bulbs" b/c that's what my little brother called them when he was a toddler.
Or what about the people who make a word.... any word... plural by using an apostrophy and s? (dish's, scope's, etc.) I see that all the time and everywhere and it makes me crazy!
Maybe, LOL he is terrible, then one time he was trying to be frisky and some how thought it would be ok to say "oh honey I am gonna make you squeal like a pig" :stone :stone
He didn't understand why I smacked him after that (no I was not fat when he said it) he honestly though he was being sexy. I love him, but man it can be embarrassing sometimes when we are out
Affect is a verb, Effect is a noun. Words with 's show possiession. Words with s indicate plural. Those make me nuts. My instructors use them incorrectly all the time! Oh Oh Oh...one of my instructors says "osteo-par-esis" for osteoporosis. Seiously, fols. I do my homework. Is it asking too much for the instructors to do theirs?
who says "sahn-a-meters" instead of centimeters? Am I wrong to not like that one?
I have a same dislike for that one! I guess it is just where you came from and how you were taught. I also dislike sonogram vs ultrasound! that is just me, though! Great thread!
Last night I was doing my chart check regarding a patient that had percutaneous drainage of an abdominal abcess. I was reading the Doc's report where he had summed it all up perfectly by writing "Puss removed".
I've always remembered there as having "here" in it, so it relates to a place. Their has "heir" in it, the person who will inherit, so it relates to people and possession.
I went to the student clinic when I lived on campus, a girl came in stroking her jaw below the ears (with seasonal allergies) saying her "fallopian" tubes were all clogged up.
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When I read the "Check at the nurses' station", I immediately thought of a literal check! Whoopee! They're paying me to go to the nurse's station. What a place!
We had a secretary who made a sign to post on an isolation room door- "Please enter through anti-room." Unfortunately, it was up for a day or so until I looked, did a double take and took it down and posted the sign again with the proper word.