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.

[MassED, BSN, RN]

lucky1RN said:

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.

to the centimeter question, my mom says "SONOmeter" as I have heard MANY MANY nurses and doctors use this... my mom (nurse of 40+ years) says that's old school lingo and you can say it either way.... she's very adamant about it being a word that is used.... so not sure about that one!

Good point about the orienting versus ORIENTATING, that gets me too! Look what I found: https://www.merriam-webster.com/

[Atheos]

like "translate" vs "interpret"?

Translating is limited to language. You translate words or a speech.

Interpret has broader uses. You interpret speech but also interpret signs or body language.

[leslie :-D]

Bonnie Nurse said:

Aren't there two ways to pronounce centimeter?

look what I found.

sounds like, "sontimeter"

heh.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centimeter

[leslie :-D]

MassED said:

Good point about the orienting versus ORIENTATING, that gets me too! Look what I found: https://www.merriam-webster.com/

we could use your link and type in "orientate", or, look here:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/orientate

it is indeed, a word.

we've had threads about this already.

that's how I knew.

leslie

[nightmare, RN]

I have to say I have never heard anyone pronounce centimetre anything other that cent-i- metre.I would be asking them what they meant if they pronounced it sont or any other way!!!

[MassED, BSN, RN]

I worked in a peds office in NJ where the receptionist would say "tyenol." I don't know if that was an NJ thing or what. Both she and the Chinese doctor would call the cartridge on the printer the "cartilage." The first time I was asked the order a new cartilage I was a little confused.

scary that a doc would mess this up, regardless of language spoken. Hope the doc wasn't an ortho! Yeah, I addressed your torn cartridge in your knee.... you'd want them to SOUND like they know what they're talking about, at least in the country in which they practice!

[mercymimi]

jaguar pronounced (jag-YOU-ar)

And in the context of my cirrent job, a cust. service rep for the local newspaper, "I need to talk to you about my PERSCRIPTION"

Can't help you with that yet, not qualified.... I can talk to you about you SUBscription....

I'll confess I prounounce it JAG-wahr.

That's better than saying, "JAG-wire", IMO.

My DH can't say "aluminum" to save his life.

[MassED, BSN, RN]

My inlaws always say alztimers instead of alzheimers. It really gets under my skin!

I've heard of people believing it was actually "Old Timers"

[nightmare, RN]

MassED said:

I've heard of people believing it was actually "Old Timers"

that's quite apt really.

[MassED, BSN, RN]

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Hector-ectomy.

(Someone removed Hector from the scene). 

I actually think this is cute . . . sugar diabetes. I love that they add "sugar" to it.

steph

sugar diabetes is what a lot of people in the south say, again, region dictates the slang.

[MassED, BSN, RN]

what language is latte? it's not spanish(leche)

Italian

[MassED, BSN, RN]

mercymimi said:

I'll confess I prounounce it JAG-wahr.

That's better than saying, "JAG-wire", IMO.

My DH can't say "aluminum" to save his life.

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....