Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

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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?!

Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

It's an O2 SAT not STAT. Drives me absolutely nuts. EMT's call it stats over the radio allll the time. Aghhhhh.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

Author: Art Williams

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Whoever invented pronunciation in the English language was either drunk or willfully malicious. You all have NO IDEA what we poor ESL speakers go through.

"And lo, when the Romans did perceive that Sebastius had invented English rules of pronunciation, they fetched him outside the city gate and smote him sore with arrows, so that he died" (Andronicles 49:50, KJV).

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

Whoever invented pronunciation in the English language was either drunk or willfully malicious. You all have NO IDEA what we poor ESL speakers go through.

hope this works... Just to confuse people more.

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Specializes in ICU.

"Nephro" instead of Nepro when referring to the tube feeding! I hope I didn't repeat!

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It used to make me pull my hair, but I think I've heard X-TRAY for XRAY waaay too many times that I've gotten used to it.

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Specializes in ED; Med Surg.

DI-A-BEET-US!!! Makes me crazy.

And in a recent nursing note, I read (patient with concussion) "Patient is able to do cereal addition". Really? Cheerios + Raisin Bran = ?

Really??? And as far as not correcting people, nursing notes in particular are legal documents. Misspellings and poor grammar are unprofessional and make one look uneducated. Just my opinion.

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Specializes in CVICU.

K+ = putashum

Ca++ = kalshum

Barapamil

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Specializes in CVICU.

I got mah own C-pak machine.

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Specializes in LTC Rehab Med/Surg.
Work-related:

Orientate

Contimeter

In daily life:

Too many to mention. The book that brought me and my husband together was "Eats, Shoots and Leaves". It was like two geeks meeting their gaze across a Mensa convention.

Contimeter. My autocorrect even knows that's just wrong.

How people talk doesn't really bother me except that not a word.

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enjoying reading all your posts!..

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Specializes in critical care.

Heard a new one tonight!

Jillian Barrett Syndrome!

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Specializes in PCCN.
Not mispronounciations, but I've noticed regional differences in word choice. I'm in the northern US but have family in many different regions of the country.

We say "push" / they say "mash"

(as in push the button)

We say "quit misbehaving or quit acting up" / they say "quit being ugly"

(as in reference to a child's behavior)

We say "you all" or "you guys" / they say "y'all"

We say "couch" / they say "sofa"

We say "pop" / they say "soda"

I had a lady say that I was mashing her arm.I was like , what?? oh ,im pushing on her arm. I apologized of course. I'm a northerner lol

How bout davenport ,lol

I'm an OLD northerner, lol

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