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.

[Trishalishus, PhD, CNS]

... I also hate when people say that they "could care less" when they should say they "couldn't care less."

Ektuellah, it works either way - think about it - it depends on the way you say it and the look on your face as you speak.

[Trishalishus, PhD, CNS]

Correct :) Since we are in the USA the emigrants immigrate here. However if you moved out of the country to say London then you emigrated to London. Their of course you would be an immigrant.

Immigrant = immigrated = incoming

Emigrated = outgoing

No such word as emmigrant.

Also, since we're being picky, it should be, "There, of course, you would be an immigrant."

Here are some of mine: my g/mother used to say ambliance (ambulance)

A lot of people say "etcetera, etcetera, etcetera", when they only need one etc because it is already plural (although I am prepared to be corrected on this by a Latin scholar).

It is becoming common for people to say "People that" rather than "People who" - the latter is correct - we are not objects.

The thing that grates on me the most is when people try to sound more educated/upper class than they are, by throwing "myself" and "yourself" into everything they write and say, as in "Myself and stupid here are going to class now" (well thank gawd - hope it helps!)

AND my number one prize for verbal mistakes I hope NEVER to make is "Honestly, I think..." because to me that says sometimes you lie and have now chosen not to - for once.

By the way - Australians laugh at a lot of the pronunciations USAmericans use (nucular (for nuclear) is always good for a laugh); or when USAmericans call themselves "Americans" as if they're the only Americans on the planet. No doubt y'all laff at us, too.

An't this fun?

[Trishalishus, PhD, CNS]

"No, I've had no surgeries before....oh wait....do you want to count the brain surgery...does that count?"

I have tears pouring down my cheeks laughing at this one - I am adding this to my signature. I LOVE IT

thank you so much GIRN

[Trishalishus, PhD, CNS]

... Still, it is a bit like nails on a chalk board.

In Australia we call 'em "blackboards" - because - wait for it - they're black! The white boards are called ... whiteboards. I have heard that USAmericans used to call them blackboards but had to stop in the late 1970s because it was offending some people to use the b word. Is that true or apocryphal?

[rn/writer, RN]

in australia we call 'em "blackboards" - because - wait for it - they're black! the white boards are called ... whiteboards. i have heard that usamericans used to call them blackboards but had to stop in the late 1970s because it was offending some people to use the b word. is that true or apocryphal?

never heard that explanation. we stopped calling them blackboards in some schools because they were green. seriously.

[Trishalishus, PhD, CNS]

O.k. how about those who say VICE-A VERSA instead of VICE VERSA?!! That one bugs me for some reason.

The correct pronunciation is vicky versa - unless you're a USAmerican in which case, according to Merriam Webster y'all kin use "ahther"

[Trishalishus, PhD, CNS]

I'm thinking with this writing display, he is not mistaking you for Dumas.

(Hardy har har har)

As Monty Python might say, Apples - "Very witty, Wilde."

[nursemichelle80, BSN, RN]

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.

HAHA!! I lol'd hard at some of your examples!!!

[jallen5]

I'm a medical transcriptionist, and I hear doctors mess up all the time which can be amusing, but sometimes it is dangerous for patient care. I have a speed-talking ER doc who cannot or will not pronounce medications correctly. He will pronounce some of them in such a way that it could be one of several different things, so I have to put a blank there. I get dinged for the blank, but you can't take chances with meds, and I would rather the doctor have to answer for it than make a wrong guess.

[jenrn6282]

my favorite is : my patient takes that white pill for water....Latex instead of Lasix

O2 STAT will always be a favorite instead of SAT

"My father was just diagnosed with old-timers disease" umm....it's Alzheimer's

[sunkissed75, CNA]

It drives me nuts when I hear someone say, "How are yous?" My boss always says 'yous' when she is talking to more than one person....ahhhhh!!!!

[rn/writer, RN]

It drives me nuts when I hear someone say, "How are yous?" My boss always says 'yous' when she is talking to more than one person....ahhhhh!!!!

While I agree it can sound ignorant to say yous or youse, I do think it's sad that English does not have a plural you form as most other languages do. The closest we come is y'all.

Than again, y'all is often used as a singular form with the plural becoming all y'all.