Learn To Say It Correctly!!

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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.

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all4ofus said:
How about "terlett" for "toilet"? Goes right along with "wersh" for "wash" doesn't it?

My mom actually drives me crazy for the opposite reason, though. She overenunciates everything and pronounces EVERY word EXACTLY as it is spelled. "And" is always "and," never "&," and sometimes it almost sounds like "ant." Drives me CRAZY! She is the ONLY person I've ever met in my life who pronounces February correctly... try it! "Feb-ru-ary." Everyone else in the US, whether from the North, South, East, or West, says "Febuary." Another one of hers is "o-rang-u-tan," technically correct, but the rest of us are fine with o-rang-a-tang;" why can't she accept it??? There's just something slightly robotic about the need to speak perfectly.

Well, I have to say that my hat is off to your mother. I find that refreshing in this day and age of text speak and poor grammar and mispronunciation.

One thousand Kudos to your mother. I also say February and Orangutan...because that is how the words are supposed to be pronounced...in the same vein.....

Two that make my hair stand on end are 1. Liberry (where all the books are kept) and 2. Valentimes Day (February 14)..OK that one makes my ears hurt! When I repeat it back to the person only say it properly, they usually say, yes, Valentimes Day!! Like they do not even hear it....OY VEY!!

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nrsang97 said:
We have a NA who calls a gown a "gownd" . I want to scream at her that gown DOES NOT HAVE A "D" AT THE END!!!!!!!!!! Drives me insane.

I have heard a bunch of people say this...how can you screw up a 4 letter word so badly? Add an extra letter, I suppose.

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CapeCodMermaid said:
I was re-writing policies at one facility. I looked at the DNR policy. One of the choices was Do Not Incubate. When I changed it a bunch of them wanted to know what was wrong with the original version...nothing unless you're an egg!

At one hospital for which I worked, we still had paper charting (yuck!). Anyway, on the skin assessment form, there was a checkbox section for description of drainage. That section included "purulent," "serosanguinous," "bloody," and "serious." I guess that meant that there was really alot of drainage from the wound!

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Life insurance commercial:

Both were said within the commercial.

"There is no medical exam or medical questions"

"There are no medial questions or medical exam"

To me, the first sounds odd. The "is" is obviously singular, with more than one 'subject' (I'm sorry if that's the wrong term- I've been up for a while, and brain is mushy )

The second still sounds a bit odd, but at least has "are", and both subjects are 'covered' (so probably OK).

IDK. Any thoughts? (besides "don't post when tired" )

This is probably one of those times like writing a word that I've written a million times, and for some reason it looks weird. 

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xtxrn said:
Life insurance commercial:

Both were said within the commercial.

"There is no medical exam or medical questions"

"There are no medial questions or medical exam"

To me, the first sounds odd. The "is" is obviously singular, with more than one 'subject' (I'm sorry if that's the wrong term- I've been up for a while, and brain is mushy )

The second still sounds a bit odd, but at least has "are", and both subjects are 'covered' (so probably OK).

IDK. Any thoughts? (besides "don't post when tired" )

This is probably one of those times like writing a word that I've written a million times, and for some reason it looks weird. 

I think you are correct, and I don't think that the second example is correct because the writer knew it was correct, only that he/she is homing in on the first "subject". Which is singular in the first example and plural in the second.

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Jamesdotter said:
I married one! He'd come to the west coast from the mid-west (Kansas) at age 8 and never totally lost the "warsh".. No rinch, tho.

By Mid-Atlantic, I meant the PA/DE/MD/NJ area - a lil' far from KS! 

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My bugbear when it comes to ads isn't misspelling, its grammar - too much "less" and almost no "fewer". If you can count them, they're fewer: 8 items or fewer, fewer incidents... BTW, you only need to write fewer a couple of times before it looks like a nonsense word!

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psu, I'll have to remember that the next time I've got a patient with a drain in.

"What's the drainage like?"

"It's, like, totally serious!"

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psu_213 said:
At one hospital for which I worked, we still had paper charting (yuck!). Anyway, on the skin assessment form, there was a checkbox section for description of drainage. That section included "purulent," "serosanguinous," "bloody," and "serious." I guess that meant that there was really alot of drainage from the wound!

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DeLanaHarvickWannabe said:
By Mid-Atlantic, I meant the PA/DE/MD/NJ area - a lil' far from KS! ;)

I guess I was looking back at a previous post in referring to the mid-west. I should know that KS isn't on the Atlantic. :rolleyes:

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GilaRRT said:
We need to take geographic location into consideration however. If you ever have a chance to travel the country, you should find the differences in annunciation and language articulation interesting. I know language differences exist in most other countries as well.

I was raised up north and know my annunciation of specific words is considered strange by the people I currently live and work around. My articulation of words such as carotid and trauma are considered strange by many people in the southwest.

I believe you meant to say enunciation. Annunciation means a proclamation, as in the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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(1) I don't know how many times I have to say it on here: It's freaking HIPAA, not HIPPA!

(2) What the hell is a "pulse ox?" Why doesn't anyone call it an O2 sat around here??

Rant over 

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