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.

Specializes in Day program consultant DD/MR.

I called to order a pizza and the girl on the phone kept saying peeksa every time she said pizza. Come on if you work for a major chain now how to pronounce the word of what you are selling.........

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Tracylvn said:
I called to order a pizza and the girl on the phone kept saying peeksa every time she said pizza. Come on if you work for a major chain now how to pronounce the word of what you are selling.........

She probably just had her tongue pierced 

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ThatPoshGirl said:
She probably just had her tongue pierced 

I have my tongue pierced and can say. Don't think that was it.

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I grew up in Ohio and moved to Ga. right after college. (The first time!)

A friend invited me over to her home saying she was "fixing to order a pizza". "Are you making a pizza?" I asked. "I am fixing to order a pizza".

She said. "Are you fixing a pizza?" I asked.......well you get the just of it! For a northern girl, it took me a couple of years to understand southern speak!

And then I moved to Tucson, Minnesota, New York, Colorado, and to Florida and on and on. Every state and every region within that state have such distinct dialects. I have been in Tn. now for 4 years..........

let's just say at Wal*Mart, the clerks still say, "where you from, hon?"and I still say, "Can you repeat that!!!":yeah::yeah::yeah:

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shelly304 said:
I grew up in Ohio and moved to Ga. right after college. (The first time!)

A friend invited me over to her home saying she was "fixing to order a pizza". "Are you making a pizza?" I asked. "I am fixing to order a pizza".

She said. "Are you fixing a pizza?" I asked.......well you get the just of it! For a northern girl, it took me a couple of years to understand southern speak!

And then I moved to Tucson, Minnesota, New York, Colorado, and to Florida and on and on. Every state and every region within that state have such distinct dialects. I have been in Tn. now for 4 years..........

let's just say at Wal*Mart, the clerks still say, "where you from, hon?"and I still say, "Can you repeat that!"

Tell me about we spent 8 years in Alabama South East area and it took such a long time to get used to the way they talk. I used to think they had thier own language. It has been 9years since living down there so I can't really think of to many examples at the moment, but will post if I do.

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have to agree,typos aren'tindicative of poor grammar. Think Iran used to be pershia. yup, the whole latino, hispanic,& one that eludes me right now( when your ancestry is hispanic, but you are born in ,for instance,USA) I didn't think africans could be considered hispanic,unless they are part of each,of course.Some folks say we are all descendants of africa,or mid-east.btw, with all that mingling culture ,you'd think there would be alot less fighting for so long!!!

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:stone

I think everyone has little stuff like that that urks them.

I had a client the other day that had "cadillac" surgery on his right eye.

Also had one that had "suggestive" heart failure.

It takes all types. Just drives you nuts though. :chuckle

Wow, Cadillac surgery, I wouldn't able to control laughing for sure.

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Specializes in Infusion Nursing, Home Health Infusion.

As an IV nurse I hate it when people say Antecubical Fossa It Antecubital Fossa not Cubical

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Stan, I remember when I used to ask my mexican boss for some assistance when taking spanich classes. He said he couldn't help,because the school was not teaching how mexican people really talk, but some Snobby Harvard stuff that no one understands!!!

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Specializes in Psych, Ortho, Stroke, and TBI.

Some that erk me:

AtelectaLIS it's atelectasis.

Latte pronounced "Lah-teh" not "Laht."

NucUler (as someone posted on the first page) Hey, if it's good enough for our President... LOL!!

And why does everyone pronounce Phenytoin as "Feh-Noy-Tin"? EVERYONE does. It should be "Feh-ni-toe-in". That's how it's spelled.

Phe-ny-toin. If it was "Feh-noy-tin" it would be spelled "Phenoytin"

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Latte pronounced "Lah-teh" not "Laht."

"Lah-teh" is correct (wasn't sure which one was bothering you).

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Specializes in ICU.
I haven't heard anyone say "stat" instead of "sat" but...

My personal pet peeves:

"phernegan" or some other twisted form of "phenergan"

"Nucular" to which I respond "How do you spell that?". It's "nuclear" people!

"Scrip"...as in, "Lucky1RN, what do you think of this patient's rhythm scrip?" Uh...what's a scrip? Do you mean "strip"?

"Sontimeter"...as in "the patient's wound is 2 sontimeters wide". It's "centimeter". Do you say a gumball costs 1 sont? Nooooo.

Yeah, I'm a bit picky about language! I could go on and on. Expresso instead of espresso. Orientated instead of oriented. Prostrate instead of prostate. Ok...I'll shut up now.

:rollAT SONT!!!!

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