Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

[ixchel]

Car-dee-ya-zem.

It's car-di-zem. Or dil-ti-ya-zem.

Cardiazem isn't a real thing.

Can I get an amen?!

[ReadyToListen, CNA, EMT-B]

Several of my friends are already in nursing school here in Texas and we had a good laugh the other day from an article on this very site! Someone was relating an incident with an 81-year-old female patient, slightly combative, sedated and incubated. 

[Sun0408, ASN, RN]

The incubated is a autocorrect issue. My phone did it all the time until it finally learned LOL. It still drives me crazy with other nursing terms,however, It's getting better 

[TheGooch]

What drives me nuts? People who think it's their god given duty to correct someone when they mispronounce a word. It's rude and they should have been taught better manners by their parents.

[SoonerBredExpat]

Not nursing related....but coupon as "kyew-pon". Drives me batty!! It's French, people! It's koo-pon. You don't say kyewmadin, do you? You don't ask, "Kyew-d you get me a glass of water?", do you?

Oh, and I don't say the "t" in often, sorry. Never will.

[ajmclean]

Bafroom for bathroom. Axe for ask. Wif for with.

[klone, MSN, RN]

What drives me nuts? People who think it's their god given duty to correct someone when they mispronounce a word. It's rude and they should have been taught better manners by their parents.

Which is why I only SILENTLY judge people's grammar. :)

[nrsang97, BSN, RN]

Michigan. It's pop not soda here.

[mariebailey, MSN, RN]

ixchel said:

OMG I want to kick puppies when apostrophes are overused!!!

Please, don't, kick a, puppy. I love, them. 

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

The following are not nutty mispronunciations. Rather, they are common misspellings that get on my last nerves.

'Dula' instead of Doula...

'Nitch' instead of Niche...

'Delima' instead of Dilemma...

'Clicks' instead of Cliques...

[nrsang97, BSN, RN]

It makes me crazy when my husband says "close the light". Lights are turned off and on not open and closed.

[bsnprg]

Pharmalogical

instead of pharmacological

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[ReadyToListen, CNA, EMT-B]

YES!! Especially trying to fix scared, confused, elderly, or peds patients. However, I am glad when someone helps me without laughing at me (hint, I'm scared of pharmacology...) cause I do need to learn it right the first time.