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?

[WKShadowNP, DNP, APRN]

OK- I get it. But the post was about pet peeves, and y'all is mine. And wikipedia is an anonymously sourced internet site- not EBP!

You are correct.

Oh, and while I do use y'all, I get annoyed when people say ALL Y'ALL, because that's implied, right?

:)

[Kitiger, RN]

You are correct.

Oh, and while I do use y'all, I get annoyed when people say ALL Y'ALL, because that's implied, right?

:)

While "Y'all" can be plural, it is not a given. "All y'all" is always plural. :)

[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.

[WKShadowNP, DNP, APRN]

Once upon a time after I moved to a new area (a state away) a co-worker interjected that I pronounced the word "giblet" incorrectly. I used the J sound for the g as I had my whole life, and as did all of my family.

"Don't you know that if a G is followed by a vowel, then it is a hard sound? Where'd you learn to speak?"

I thought quickly and replied the name of the state from which I had recently moved (using her logic), "Gore-guh."

She didn't think I was funny.

[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!"

[WKShadowNP, DNP, APRN]

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

YESSSS

And on that note, you don't palpitate things, you palpate.

I used to say expediate instead of expedite. But I know the error of my ways.

[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.