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.

I take undoubtedly to mean 'without a doubt,'but apparently to mean' it would seem so'. big difference to me. ( is it difference, or differance?

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So what about "birfday" for birthday?

and "Have you ate yet?" and my personal favorite "I seen it"

by the way how do you correctly say YANKAUER I have heard it so many ways and I personally change it up everytime because i have no clue

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Specializes in EMS, ER, GI, PCU/Telemetry.

I had a patient who used to always said she had to "Vomik" instead of vomit, didn't really bother me, kinda thought it was cute...

And not grammar thing, but funny... When I was getting a patients health history for previous surgeries, she told me she had a rectarectomy... You know, when they rubber band the rectum.... (hemorrhoidectomy) ?

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Specializes in Orthopedics/Med-Surg, LDRP.
SassyGN said:
So what about "birfday" for birthday?

and "Have you ate yet?" and my personal favorite "I seen it"

by the way how do you correctly say YANKAUER I have heard it so many ways and I personally change it up everytime because i have no clue

We pronounce it "yank hour".

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Specializes in ER.

There are soo many I can't even begin to describe some of my "favs"

ps. these are not always patients!

Vomiked = vomited

striatika = sciatic nerve pain?>

leevakwine = Levaquin?

nebalizer = Nebulizer

akidosis = Acidosis ?

top fav >>> ALBROOTERAL = Albuteral Nebs !!

Gotta Love IT! 

Thanks for the laughs!!

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Specializes in LTC, Acute Care.

Trusty Dorland's says Yankauer is pronounced this way:

yang´kow-er

Incidentally, this website (one I consider to be extremely trustworthy) spelled "sunction" on this link.  Sometimes it is frustrating to be on the grammar police.

Oh--my husband drives me batty when he says frustrated because he leaves off that first R and says "fustrated." He usually says it when he's upset, so that is not the right time to go policing on him.

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I can't stand the 'sontimeter' instead of centimeter pronounciation!! It's always the ones who think they are the highly educated and enlightened ones. I've lived in two countries with the metric system and that's the first time I've heard 'sontimeter'

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Okay, 'sontimeter' is the french pronounciation but the word has been 'anglicized' and the accepted way of saying it on this side of the pond is centimeter. Foyer is french also but the pronounciation has remained french as in "Foy-yay" not FoyER. As most of us know rules are variable in the English language.

However there is no such word as 'SNUCK'!!!! It is an example of slang making it's way into common usage and thereby being accepted as the 'correct' term. It is SNEAKED!

Someone tell my husband that it is 'greater THAN', not 'greater then'

-Orientated instead of oriented--it's a word, yes, but wrong context

-I'm okay with an accent morphing a word but you still have to spell it the correct way....that is, in plain Queens English!!

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My third post in a row, I know but this grammar purist is riled up. My brother in law is a widely published linguistics professor, a genius who speaks 21 languages fluently. I'll take his word and his alone over anyone elses...its CENTimeter unless you live in France and it's NOT snuck.

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Specializes in LTC/Skilled Care/Rehab.

A couple of things that bother me are UM-brella and IN-surance. That always cracks me up. Is an ink pen a special type of pen? I thought all pens used ink. Why not just call it a pen? The supplies list from my daughter's school said that she can't bring lead pencils. I asked her what that was supposed to mean and she said "mommy they mean mechanical pencils". If a 10-year-old knew that they are called mechanical pencils why didn't the adult making the list. I didn't know there was such a thing as lead pencils anymore.

I have had quite a few patients say they need to go "boo boo" (have a bowel movement). I think it is kind of cute since they were all over 70.

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What bothers you about UM-brella and IN-surance?

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Orthopedic.

My father-in-law is on Coumadin. My in-laws constantly call it Couma-dent....Coumadent. Annoys the heck out of me!!

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