Learn To Say It Correctly!!

[SheriLynnRN]

Doesn't it just drive you insane when someone tells you that Mr. Smith's O2 STAT is 96%?

It's O2 SAT people! Sat, short for saturation. I even hear respiratory therapists saying this. I am sooooo tempted to say something next time, but I know it's just petty, so I needed to vent here. Thank you.

[sevensonnets]

I think if I ever hear "sontimeters" again I'll scream!

[indyangel]

I have gotten a great laugh from reading these, even though mispronouncing words irritates me to no end.

I am currently in nursing school and my instructor says: immulizations instead of immunizations. Drives me crazy. I want to say something but I value my grade too much.

Anyway, funny stories.

[notjustanurse]

PhenerGRIN and abdoMUM drive me crazy! I also hate to hear people pronounce cardizem card-ee-a-zem. Only the generic has an "a" in there.

[HumanContract]

omg my mother in law says tide-n-all instead of tylenol....i really thought she was the only one! lol

[HumanContract]

MassED said:

most of my life (I have lived in about 10 states), I have only ever heard "Jag-wahr" Rarely does someone say Jag-U-ar. Do you call the cat, Jaguar, "Jag U ar" too? JagWAR. Tomato, potato, etc.... I'm still confused on why in the N.E. that people who are vomiting say they are "throwing...." I hope I'm not with them when they are throwing their vomit....

I'm in NY, we say throwing up...not throwing, but I didn't know that it was solely a North Eastern thing! lol

[HumanContract]

whodatnurse said:

I hate hearing ambulance pronounced am-ba-lance...and with the last syllable prounced like the lance in Lancelot rather than like 'lunce'.

I'm loving this, becase I love seeing how different I speak compared with people in other regions. I'm in NYC and I don't say ambulance either of the ways you mentioned...we kind of say it like "amb-yoo-lince", the more I think about it the more crazy it sounds! But that's how I've always said it and how I've always heard it.

[Simba&NalasMom, LPN]

MassED said:

most of my life (I have lived in about 10 states), I have only ever heard "Jag-wahr" Rarely does someone say Jag-U-ar. Do you call the cat, Jaguar, "Jag U ar" too? JagWAR. Tomato, potato, etc.... I'm still confused on why in the N.E. that people who are vomiting say they are "throwing...." I hope I'm not with them when they are throwing their vomit....

Jag-WIRE was pretty commonly said in CO, where I'm from. Always made me cringe.

However, in the UK and I'm assuming Australia, Jag-U-ar is the typical and accepted pronunciation. Since the car is made in the UK, I suppose they're allowed.

[notjustanurse]

A couple of others that we hear a lot around here are "prostRate", instead of prostate, and "zofraM" instead of zofran.

And just the other night I had a patient's mother call lymph nodes "limp noids."

[80sNurse]

agreed!

I'm fondly remembering an elderly gentleman I cared for in nursing school who said he had "cadillacs" in his eyes

[classicdame, MSN, EdD]

I know someone who mispronounces a lot of things. She is a lovely person though. What really bothers me is that it BOTHERS me. Why am I so freaked out when she says "remlet" for "remnant"?

[JenTheRN]

How about "All of a sudden" vs "All of the sudden"? Which one do you say?

I've always said all of a sudden. (I'm from Michigan) My boyfriend, who is from Texas says all of the sudden.

[classicdame, MSN, EdD]

also from Texas and never heard anyone say all of the sudden. Of course, Texas is large enough to hold 5 western european countries in its border, so there is plenty of room for vernacular differences.