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.

[morte, LPN, LVN]

Oh ,this is a good one. IT IS "ISLAM" not "IZLAM". MUSLIM not MUZLIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ONE more thing IT is IRAQ not AI+RAQ one word.

http://www.answers.com/topic/muslim

[morte, LPN, LVN]

my vote is the first one

me TOE proe lole

[island40]

since we are venting pet peeves I just can't stand it when people say "orientate" There is NO SUCH WORD! you can orient, you can attend an orientation and you can be oreiented but you can't ORIENTATE anything! ugg. Ok, now on to the lesser evils of prostrate vs. prostate!! :)

[morte, LPN, LVN]

since we are venting pet peeves I just can't stand it when people say "orientate" There is NO SUCH WORD! you can orient, you can attend an orientation and you can be oreiented but you can't ORIENTATE anything! ugg. Ok, now on to the lesser evils of prostrate vs. prostate!! :)

is a perfectly fine English word....not so common in the US of A......http://wsu.edu/~brians/errors/orientate.html

[ghillbert, MSN, NP]

Indeed - at home in Australia we were taught to say "orientated".

Not medically related, but two I heard the other night:

"Fustrated" instead of "fRustrated" and "pacific" instead of "specific". Grrrrr.

[Jamesdotter]

since we are venting pet peeves I just can't stand it when people say "orientate" There is NO SUCH WORD! you can orient, you can attend an orientation and you can be oreiented but you can't ORIENTATE anything! ugg. :)

I do respectfully beg to differ. "Orient" is preferred usage in the US, but in the UK, I believe that "orientate" is preferred.

The word has been addressed several times in this thread, but I suspect that not too many of us have the time to read all the many pages of it.

[morte, LPN, LVN]

I do respectfully beg to differ. "Orient" is preferred usage in the US, but in the UK, I believe that "orientate" is preferred.

The word has been addressed several times in this thread, but I suspect that not too many of us have the time to read all the many pages of it.

likely the case.....

[masry123]

http://www.answers.com/topic/muslim

THIS is an arabic word. YOU will never hear it with Z. with all respect to the website. IT comes from SALAM not ZALAM!!!!!!!!!

[DalmatiaRN]

I thought just my ex said this, but today at work I heard, "He dramastically changed," really? it's either a dramatic or drastic change not a dramastic. . .

[regularRN]

Maybe it was a dramatic change with a drastic outcome...

[DolceVita, ADN, BSN, RN]

Did someone really post an answers.com pronunciation of Muslim? I'm not being funny but that is like posting an American pronunciation of Glasgow.

[regularRN]

I'm not Scottish, but I believe they pronounce it "glas-gee". In England we say, "glas-go".