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.

[suespets]

gila; here is an irony, lol! Enunciate is to speak clearly (not garbled) annunciation is what took place when the archangel appeared to Mary w/ announcement of her pregnancy. To correctly pronounce, is to state a word correctly. hope your laughing!

[suespets]

las209: both spellings are correct,but mean different things,I believe. There's other words like that, can't think of any right now.

[suespets]

Centimeter being pronounced sonameter(or so) is from the french (or gaul) pronunciation. I had a instructor and a&p teacher both use that !

[galenight, BSN, RN]

Acid relex instead of acid reflux gets me everytime.

I, too, cannot stand when people use to/too/two incorrectly.

PheneGRAN puts me over the edge.

Pacific for specific, as one poster already mentioned, is enough to make me want to jump in the Pacific!

To the poster who asked for the pronunciation of Diflucan.. here in Michigan I've always heard it pronounced die-flew-can. I think it's phonetic.

I also can't stand when people use ain't (do you put an apostrophe in there? doesn't really matter.. it's not a word!) It's worse still when the nurses you work with use it regularly. Cringe!! Or the all to common double negative. "I didn't get no memo about that". WHAT?!? Then you did get the memo?

GRAMMER POLICE UNITE!

[Jo Dirt]

SheriLynnRN said:

I'm not really bothered when pt's or family members say things incorrectly. There are some things that the general public just doesn't know....but I get really annoyed when healthcare workers/professionals don't use or say the words correctly. It's not so much that regional accents bother me, it's the addition or subtraction of letters and/or entire syllables that gets to me.

btw, SONTimeter bugs the heck out of me too! lol

My southern accent is cake thick but I am meticulous about pronouncing words.

[dream'n, BSN, RN]

WestTXnurse said:

I cannot stand when someone needs to WARSH their hands or whatever! A girl I went to nursing school with said that, I always wanted to grab her face and help her say WAAAASH!

Now 'warsh' for wash is not a true mistake, it is regional dialect for parts of the Appalacian and SE (Actually it's 'worsh'.) It's kind of like 'watta' for water in Boston. ?

I think the only thing that really gets me is 'mammyagram' for mammogram. It drives me crazy.

[XB9S, BSN, MSN, EdD, RN, APN]

FlyingScot said:

A new employee is oriented to the unit not orientated..

Nope, where I am from you are most definately orientated to a unit and the patients are alert and orientated.

We do not have appendectomies we do appendicectomies,

we walk on pavements not sidewalks,

and there are a few more things that I could mention but the profanity filter edits them even though they are acceptable in the UK, and there are words that you use in the US that gets me blushing because they are definately rude here. 

Sorry I know it's a little off topic but the orientated made me smile because that's what we say here.

[nightmare, RN]

sharrie said:

Nope, where I am from you are most definately orientated to a unit and the pateints are alert and orientated.

We do not have appendectomies we do appendicectomies,

we walk on pavements not sidewalks,

and there are a few more things that I could mention but the profanity filter edits them even though they are acceptable in the UK, and there are words that you use in the US that gets me blushing because they are definately rude here. 

Sorry I know it's a little off topic but the orientated made me smile because that's what we say here.

I'm with Sharrie on this one!!

[XB9S, BSN, MSN, EdD, RN, APN]

nightmare said:

I'm with Sharrie on this one!!

Thought you would be

[LeslieMarie]

The other day a 30+ year nurse I work with referred to a nasal cannula as a "caNOOla".

yikes.

[morte, LPN, LVN]

well, sharrie and nightmare mentioned it first....orientated is indeed a word. .....sontimeter is an acceptable pronunciation, in some places....and irregardless may well become acceptable....think flammable and inflammable.....and the warsh/worsh can be found in the upper midwest as well......i find thinking moose/loose saves me on that one.....

last time we had a thread like this, found out that most of us, use nauseous incorrectly....though it is drifting our way,lol. if we mean we feel like vomiting, the word is nauseated....nauseous is an adjective used to describe something that causes you to be nauseated

[MedicalLPN, LPN]

The one that gets to me the most, and my dear grandparents still say it this way is : Diarrhear I hear it fairly often from many different people and one day someone's going to say it to me and I'm going to scream THERE'S NO 'R' AT THE END!

Another one that drives me crazy is when people say "Oh he's on Life Supports." or "I don't want no life supports." Don't know why but that 's' at the end of support just drives me up the wall! Ah we southerners speak in a different language sometimes. :)