Linguistic Pet Peeves

[Jedrnurse]

Okay, y'all. In spite of what some people will say, your use of language will influence what people think of you, and how intelligent and/or competent they think you are.

My current number one: You don't LOOSE your license, you lose it. (If your license is loose, you need to capture it...)

Don't even get me started on loosing YOU'RE license...

What are other some other linguistic "nails on chalkboard" for folks?

[Everline]

I've said this before and got a couple of people upset, but I can't stand when people pronounce the t in the word often. I'm not saying it's wrong, necessarily. I've seen arguments both ways. So, I get that you can say it either way. It just personally bugs me. No one says moisTen or sofTen or lisTen or fasTen, but they say ofTen. Of course, I never say anything when someone says it that way. It just makes me squint for a second.

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

Nauseous is the word for something that causes nausea. Spoiled milk is nauseous.

Nauseated is the word for someone experiencing nausea. A patient can be nauseated.

Well, sometimes patients can be both... once had an Amish guy post appendectomy who had some nasty PONV. The smell of his vomit had most of us gagging and trying not to throw up ourselves. No idea what he had to eat before he came in to the ER and then up to us in the OR.

[Oxygenforeverybody]

Hey Ill admit it.. I always mess up the than/there/they're/then/their etc etc. I can never get those. As well as some other things.. don't judge me 

[quazar]

Orientated. You are not orientated to a new unit/hospital/job. You are ORIENTED.

[smf0903]

"Hey Jane, I just seen you the other day!"

[Jedrnurse, BSN, RN]

Orientated. You are not orientated to a new unit/hospital/job. You are ORIENTED.

Yeah, I am definitely with you on this one. (Even if some dictionaries list it as a legit word.)

[Mia415]

I've come to a place in my life where the grammar mistakes of others do not bother me. I'm much more bothered by the way people drive!

[NightNerd, MSN, RN]

In report, "Patient AROUSES to." Not interested in knowing that. What they rouse to will be sufficient.

Hung vs. hanged.

Any issue of subject-verb agreement.

I miss my English major days a lot sometimes.

[quazar]

Yeah, I am definitely with you on this one. (Even if some dictionaries list it as a legit word.)

Which makes my brain itch LOL.

[SapphireKitten, CNA]

This one always gets me! When they write "angle" instead of "angel." That makes me cringe when someone writes a sentimental passage about their relative/friend that passed away and says, "You'll always be my guardian angle!" Do we need to go back to elementary spelling class? Or geometry, I guess? 

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

Posts that start with "So".

"Advices please."

Choose instead of chose, loose instead of lose.

A solid wall of text. How hard is it to hit the return button twice?

[JustBeachyNurse, LPN]

"Congradulations" is not the word even if you are congratulating a graduate.

What I tell my spelling challenged son--if you don't know what a word means or how to spell the word use one you are certain of the spelling/syntax/meaning. And as such I have a child excited with the introduction of a thesaurus.

We won't even get into the bizarre statements written in charts by colleagues including quotes alleged from other nurses. I've seen charts describe everything that goes on EXCEPT actual observations of the patient and nursing interventions done.

Excessive use of abbreviations and insisting on using unapproved & nonstandard abbreviations. H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide. C2O2 is an unstable carbon compound. P&P is policy and procedure not "in place and patent" referring to GT and trachs. Sx is surgery or symptoms not suction (sxn) which was questioned by an auditor who asked why the nurse was surgically removing secretions as per what she was documenting The charts were pure gibberish