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.

[nightmare, RN]

I love this thread! if it's one mouse and one house how come it's two mice but not two hice.

My non english speaking colleagues have great difficulty with the concept of sheep,singular and sheep plural as well.

[leslie :-D]

It's actually the other way around, or was that what you meant? Loose like a moose freed from a noose.

yes...

my examples reflected incorrect usage.

loose like a moose...a ok.:chuckle

leslie

[kristenncrn]

Reviving thread to tie together religion, dialect, medicine and region.

My favorite regional slang diagnosis here in the South (which usually preceeds someone falling out after having fits then needing to be carried to the ED...)

the tachylawdies.

(say it outloud with Lawd as title, tachy as well, tachy.)

[Sue Damones]

If I was perfect, especially at 1 in the morning, I would be a billionaire. :chuckle:chuckle:chuckle

Should be, "If I WERE perfect." :)

[Atheos]

Incorrect. ?

'If I were' is standard formal.

'If I was' is standard informal.

:chuckle:

If you are going to get me you had better come better prepared. 

[SecondGenRN]

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

LMAO! my mom calls is a sontimeter!! drives me nuts!!! she also calls a wolf a woof... hilarious coming from an educated woman

[mrod, LPN, LVN]

I sometimes get tongue twisted with saying short-hand...I think I might be the one that may say "stat" but mean "sat", although I know I say it wrong so to be honest I actually say the whole word when I give report or talk about it- saturation.

I know I do that with other words that I get tongue tied with the short-version. 

[ChocoholicRN]

I've heard a lot of senior nurses at my hospital say "VRF" instead of "VRE" I've asked a few of those who say say VRE if we are missing something, if there is an "F" somewhere that we're missing, but no one could give me an answer. Anyone else ever hear it called VRF instead of VRE? I'd love to know what the F stands for, if there is one.

[suespets]

But Stan, wouldn't you say standard informal is part of the dumbing down of america I talked about before, like the colloquilisms,& inventive spelling being ok in grade schools in our country,with the goal of not hurting anyone's self esteem? sue

[Atheos]

Yes I would... but it's the weekend! :)

[suespets]

Ah,yes!!!!!!!!! let's relax,& be human. Attempting perfection is sooooooooo exhausting! I love my weekends off. I tell my fam,when necessary,"Don't ask me to think,it's my day off!!! sue

[morte, LPN, LVN]

Stanley-RN2B said:

Incorrect. ?

'If I were' is standard formal.

'If I was' is standard informal.

:chuckle:

If you are going to get me you had better come better prepared. 

NEVER heard of "informal" and I thought you were the one who stated that we didn't have such a concept in the US? and that it would make sense to have it?

I make enough mistakes....there are very few that grate on me, this is one......before you respond reread that part "I make enough mistakes" I am way not perfect.....sometimes I am not sure what is correct, which irritates me.