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.

[dscrn]

Maybe this is a Southern country accent, but a nurse at work was saying she had to go hang some "Urn" for her pt. I asked what that was and was like do you mean IRON? Yes!

Some areas up North lean this way, too...like ferl for foil-as in aluminum. and berl..what you do to water in a tea pot!

[belgarion]

You always want to take regional accents and dialects into account. The Kennedy brothers used to pronounce Alaska as "Alasker". If you have ever known anyone from Cajun country you know that they use a language unlike any other.

Sometimes I think my fellow Texans are the only people who actually speak English.

[Not_A_Hat_Person, RN]

How do y'all say angina.

I pronounce it like lady parts.

[YngAnabaptistRadical]

Maybe this is a Southern country accent, but a nurse at work was saying she had to go hang some "Urn" for her pt. I asked what that was and was like do you mean IRON? Yes!

I say Iron like "arn." And my cousin Byron was always called "Barney" because we pronounced it "Barn."

*Naomi Grace*

[morte, LPN, LVN]

the classic Bahston accent....I pahked the cah in hahvahd yahd, and sawr it drive away

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

my vote is like lady parts

Adding this to the List of Things You Don't Hear Every Day.

ROFL.

[talaxandra]

Not health care but... I have a friend whose surname is Fetherstonehaugh, pronounce Fanshaw!

[Orca, ADN, ASN, RN]

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.

I completely agree. I don't expect patients and visitors to be savvy in medical jargon and names of medications. It drives me nuts, however, when trained medical professionals can't get it right. It makes me wonder what other areas of their practice they cut corners on.

[freefalr]

these dialect & pronunciation posts are making me laugh! morte, so funny!!

i do theatre & find dialects & accents & alternate spellings & the evolution/deevolution of language (like txtspeak) endlessly interesting (and also annoying at times).

had a nursing instructor who pronounced jugular "JOO-GYOO-luhr" instead of "JUG-you-luhr"

maybe this has been posted before (and it's another spelling and non-medical one),

but it makes my brain hurt when definitely is misspelled as definAtely.

it's de-finite, like in-finite.

talaxandra, that don' make no kinda sense 'bout your friend's name! i can't get "fanshaw" from that no matter how i try!! lol

[talaxandra]

talaxandra, that don' make no kinda sense 'bout your friend's name! i can't get "fanshaw" from that no matter how i try!! lol

I know - ridiculous! I can see how, over time, stonehaugh could morph into a st/n/haw (sorry, no apostrophe key), but getting to shaw is a stretch. Fether as fan, though, makes no sense at all. The name and pronunciation are British; maybe it was a way to distinguish between the upper class - who would know how to say it - and the lower class, who would assume it sounded the way it looked?

And now I return the hijacked thread...

[morte, LPN, LVN]

I'm very sorry for this, morte, but I have to admit that reading these words caused me to choke on my tea. It also reminded me that I haven't had applesauce in a long time, and Musselman's is good stuff. I think I need to go to bed!

Naomi Grace RN

hopefully that did not result in a tannic irrigant to the sinuses....lol

[rn/writer, RN]

maybe this has been posted before (and it's another spelling and non-medical one),

but it makes my brain hurt when definitely is misspelled as definAtely.

it's de-finite, like in-finite.

Then there is the variant that I can only guess to be a misspelling AND a typo--defiantly. Go ahead. Be firm in your opinion, but you don't have to shake your fist at me.

Not health care but... I have a friend whose surname is Fetherstonehaugh, pronounce Fanshaw!

The English are known for this kind of truncation. To wit, Worcestershire becomes Wistasheer and Cholmondoley becomes Chumley.