Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

MsLindaW · Feb 25, 2015

how about "herr-ron" for heroin?

JenERally · Feb 25, 2015

Do you guys say due-odd-in-um or duo-denim when referring to the duodenum? I always said it the first way (it's the way I was taught in a survey of A&P class I took in high school) but i feel as though most people pronounce it the second way.
my pathophysiology teacher in college said matt-oor instead of mat-chur (mature). She may have been saying it properly, but she is only one of two people I've ever come across to pronounce it that way.

Due-ah-dee-num

coola · Feb 25, 2015

Since this is about pronunciations, I want to say my amazingly brilliant (deceased) father pronounced centimetre that way (sawntimeter)...and I would give a million dollars if I could just hear him say it one more time!

"Orientate" though cumbersome is a completely legitimate word. All these "drive me crazies" display a certain lack of cultural competency and simple human respect. Life is hard enough!

MsLindaW · Feb 25, 2015

and its' is the plural of its (I think)

MsLindaW · Feb 26, 2015

@mariebailey perhaps ixchel meant "when [commas] are overused!!!!!]. There's only one apostrophe in the example but four commas.

vintagemother, BSN, CNA, LVN, RN · Feb 26, 2015

Axe for ask. Wif for with.

My grandma always scolded us if she even *thought* we said "ax" for "ask".

klone, MSN, RN · Feb 26, 2015

MsLindaW said:

and its' is the plural of its (I think)

Nope.

"Its" made plural would be "their"

BrandonLPN, LPN · Feb 26, 2015

The word "grocery" seems to vary from region to region, too. Where I live, we pronounce it with a 'sh' sound, as in 'gro-shree' It always sounds weird when I hear it on TV with an 's' sound, though I suppose that's the correct pronunciation.

And we also say "melk" for milk up here, but I think someone mentioned that.

Never heard "sontimeter" for centimeter. Sounds snobbish and affected, like you're trying to sound French. And I say that as a Francophile.

jj224 · Feb 26, 2015

Orientate instead of precept

O2 stats instead of sats

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'll update as I think of more.

pixiestudent2 · Feb 26, 2015

I hate when people pronounce mature as maTOUR .

I have no idea if this is the correct or not but my psychology professor said this word a lot and it drove me mad.

ixchel · Feb 26, 2015

Supposably.

nrsang97, BSN, RN · Feb 26, 2015

I also have the same professor that says another words (for in other words..). Even in written form. It drives me nuts.