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 PCCN.
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.

wow ,must definitly be regional. we say cue-pon. and yeah, cuuud you get me a glass of water? And I do say that of-ten.

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Too much time on your hands if you let THIS stuff bother you. You could always just correct their mistake & sound like a 'know-it-all' - is that better than letting pronounciation slide?

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Specializes in LTC, Acute care.

"Testes" for tests; example "Are they going to do more testes on my mother today?"

"Prostrate" for prostate; example "he has a history of prostrate cancer

"Dilala" for dilaudid; for example "you really don't have to dilute my dilala and you have to push it fast too, they do it all the time" (this one amuses me a great deal and often requires great effort not to roll my eyes).

"Morphim" for morphine; example "I'm allergic to that Morphim, only Dilala works for me"

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Specializes in LTC, Acute care.

I've also heard "Virginia" when this pt was asking me to tell the doctor about the pain in her lady parts.

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this sounds like particular nationality/ethnicity mistake... I know cause many say car-di-yac cher... I think its funny. it doesn't bother me how they pronounce things as long as they are good nurses. if they are bad nurses and make my life harder both through their ignorance and poor communication skills, then we have a problem. 

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Specializes in Trauma, Cardiac.

On TV or radio, I frequently hear that someone's heart was restarted by a de-fib-U-lator, not a de-fib-RILL-a-tor. This makes me so crazy I usually have to call the station to correct them!

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

The overuse of commas will result in kicked kittens. Your choice.

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Specializes in Med Surg, Hospice.

Ambalance instead of Ambulance.... Tydenol instead of Tylenol...

Outside of work...

"To be Pacific" Really, you're being an Ocean?

"Don't take it Personal" I'm not taking it personal, but I'm taking it personally....

"Adverdisment"

"Coopon"

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it should have been spelled sontimeter, that is the phonetic spelling of what they are saying, I think in the first rendition of this thread several years ago, it was thought to be a French influence.

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K+ = putashum

Ca++ = kalshum

Barapamil

have heard that, just some persons pronouncing the -si- as -sh-....more accent, i think, than anything.

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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

hmm as in sofa, couch, ?
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ACE-tah-min-o-phen

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