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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LOL. I'm glad someone looked it up for me because I did think I might have made it up. I was wanting to refer to things said in a particular region, however, not the regions themselves, so "regionalisms" was the best I could do.:chuckle

Manner of speaking that is specific to a certain region is a dialect.

An entire manner of speaking would, indeed, be a dialect. But specific words and phrases found in a limited area would be regionalisms.

http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives/000360.php

Some really interesting ones on this page.

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Not to sound mean and all but as nurses we need to be more sensitive for the way others speak or say things. My 1st language is not English and is really hard at times for my tongue to say certain words.

When I was in nursing school I learned everything in English but at home everything was my native language. The entire neighborhood. If I was saying something wrong I would of never known. Now that I am married my husband corrects me all the time and I love it. You never know until someone corrects you. Instead of feeling irritated, just correct the other. Say "do you mean? and maybe they will realize it.

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RN28MD said:
Not to sound mean and all but as nurses we need to be more sensitive for the way others speak or say things. My 1st language is not English and is really hard at times for my tongue to say certain words.

When I was in nursing school I learned everything in English but at home everything was my native language. The entire neighborhood. If I was saying something wrong I would of never known. Now that I am married my husband corrects me all the time and I love it. You never know until someone corrects you. Instead of feeling irritated, just correct the other. Say "do you mean? and maybe they will realize it.

I certainly would hope we aren't referring to those for whom english is a second language.

I'd like to think we're a little more forgiving...

but you never know.

leslie

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earle58 said:
I certainly would hope we aren't referring to those for whom english is a second language.

I'd like to think we're a little more forgiving...

but you never know.

leslie

yup--think we are all referring to those who grew up speaking english and "otter no better.."

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"Growing up in the dirty south, it was always:

Breakfast -> Dinner -> Supper. We didn't have 'lunch'."

In Maritime Canada, it is: Breakfast -> Dinner -> Supper (served early around 5 pm) as well. "Lunch" is a small meal (tea biscuits, cake or cheese & crackers, etc. with tea) served around 8:30 or 9 at night.

Cheers!

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talaxandra said:
speaking of regional (or continental) differences, burglarize drives me nuts. robbers rob, there's a robbery in progress, and one is or was robbed; burglars burgle, there's a burglary in progress, and one is or was burgled. no need to make it longer than it needs to be (says one from an al-u-min-I-um pronouncing country!)

actually, either is acceptable depending on the context. also check out the adjective and adverb forms - can honestly say these are two words I have never used in my life! 

burglarize (verb)

inflected form(s): bur-glar-ized; bur-glar-iz-ing

date: 1871

transitive verb1: to break into and steal from 2: to commit burglary against intransitive verb: to commit burglary

burgle (transitive verb)

inflected form(s): bur-gled; bur-gling

etymology: back-formation from burglar

date: 1870

burglary (noun)

inflected form(s): plural bur-glar-ies

date: circa 1523

: the act of breaking and entering a dwelling at night to commit a felony (as theft); broadly : the entering of a building with the intent to commit a crime

-- bur-glar-I-ous (adjective)

-- bur-glar-I-ous-ly (adverb)

from: https://www.merriam-webster.com/

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-- bur-glar-i-ous (adjective)

-- bur-glar-i-ous-ly (adverb)

Yep, can't say I've ever used either of them either - now I'm looking for opportunities to!

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Leslie,so sorry re; last of my posts,It was meant for ARNurse2B

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It irks the crap out of me when people order "white milk" (is there any other kind, it's milk or chocolate milk...) oh , and someone who needs an "ink pen" , what else could it be for G-d's sake. And my dh who needs a Moltren, its MOTRIN for the hundredth time, there is NO L !!!!

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I see this "DH" on this forum a lot. What does it stand for?

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Bortaz said:
I see this "DH" on this forum a lot. What does it stand for?

Dear Husband 

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GrumpyRN63 said:
It irks the crap out of me when people order "white milk" (is there any other kind, it's milk or chocolate milk...) oh , and someone who needs an "ink pen" , what else could it be for G-d's sake.

Several of my colleagues get quite irked by the expression "male nurse." I don't know if it has the same meaning elsewhere but here that term refers to Aides or Orderlies that worked in the psych hospitals of yore - all men, usually strapping - and was a way to distinguish them from the (female) RNs. Hard to break stereotypes, I guess - they often get mistaken for docs, especialy with older patients. And female orderlies get mistakenfor RNs.

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