Learn To Say It Correctly!!

morte, LPN, LVN · May 3, 2010

hmmm irregardless has been around nearly 100 years....

how about inflammable and flammable.......perhaps the "other side of the coin"?

CapeCodMermaid, RN · May 3, 2010

Thanks alot (hehehe) for the link. It was fabulous.

cicatrixx15 · May 3, 2010

You might like this post, cicatrixx :) http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

That is quite hilarious! :yeah:

kbnocturna · May 9, 2010

I've read 12 pages and I haven't seen this yet:

"Ax" instead of ask. :banghead:

I live in a rather rural area, and some of my more "country" coworkers add an "-s" or "-r" after words that shouldn't have them:

"I went to the Walmarts."

"Can you print out my work schedules?"

Another thing that irritates the tar out of me is when people don't capitalize and punctuate quotations correctly.

And I feel everyone's pain about the O2 "stat." I work in a monitoring unit, and one of my coworkers says it all the time. A nurse corrected her on the phone, and she got offended and proceeded to talk about the patient's O2 STAT, emphasizing the incorrect pronounciation. I wanted to crawl under a desk.

It's encouraging to know there are other professionals out there. :loveya:

cicatrixx15 · May 9, 2010

I can't stand it when someone sees a word they have never seen before and proceeds to just skip over half the word instead of sounding it out.

The girl behind me in chemistry class yesterday said "triglycerols" instead of the "triacylglycerols" we were speaking about. How can you skip a whole part of the word????

My husband does this too, and it irritates me to no end. I mean come on. We learned how to sound words out in like the first grade. Why have people lost this skill or think it is of no importance anymore?

celticgirl · May 9, 2010

Its exacerbation NOT exasperation. That makes me crazy . Mrs.Smith dosen't have a exasperation of her asthma she has a exacerbation of her asthma.

I cannot prounouce that word right to save my life. I have problems with certain words like aluminium, cinnamon and exacerbation. THere's some other words that come out weird too but its not intentional. My tongue gets all tied in knots. I think its because I moved from one area where they pronounced things a certain way to where I live now. I know I cant pronounce it correctly and I dont even try because I dont want people to think I'm some kind of idiot. I was raised in a diff country for the first 6 years of my life and that may play a part in my speech problem.

BUt you are right there are some people that say the same things over and over again that are wrong, but they are clueless

CapeCodMermaid, RN · May 9, 2010

It exasperates me when someone can't say exacerbation! Sounding out words using phonics is a lost art. My kids are in their early 20's and they never learned phonics in school.

aussiemom · May 9, 2010

When I was teaching (college, no less), one of my students spelled the male gender "mail". Priceless.

talaxandra · May 11, 2010

My bugbear is Random Capitalisation - unless it's a proper noun or the start of a sentence, please consider whether or not it really needs a capital letter. Thank you :)

metal_m0nk, BSN, RN · May 11, 2010

Orientate....That's the one that bugs me. My mom says it all the time. Makes me want to maim small animals.

hotflashion, BSN, RN · May 11, 2010

Oh, oh, I just remembered: overuse of the word utilize. One might conclude that nurses are always having to make do and use the wrong tool to get the job done.

Defs:

Use: employ objects for the purposes they were designed for. Ex: Use a screw driver to drive a screw.

Utilize: employ objects for unintended purposes. Ex: Utilize a screw driver to pound a nail.

And I'm with you, Talaxandra, on Random Capitalization (Amer sp)!

morte, LPN, LVN · May 11, 2010

Orientate....That's the one that bugs me. My mom says it all the time. Makes me want to maim small animals.

Oy, that one has been beaten to death.....and is a perfectly good English word.....