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?!

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.

o·ri·en·tate --> verb

pre·cept --> noun

Apparently the verb form is obsolete and not used any more ...

Verb

precept (third-person singular simple present precepts, present participle precepting, simple past and past participle precepted)

(obsolete) To teach by precepts.

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Specializes in hospice.

So how do so many nursing students have preceptors then?

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Specializes in critical care.

Would of, should of, could of

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Specializes in Critical Care.

Acrost instead of across.

Worst when it should be worse ("The pain is worst now").

And so many of what people have posted here! Loving this thread!

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.
MsLindaW said:
and its' is the plural of its (I think) 

Nope.

Its' is the possessive of its.

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Specializes in critical care.
Nope.

Its' is the possessive of its.

Nope.

Its is the possessive of it. I'm not sure there ever would be a plural version of its, which is what its' would be. It is singular.

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Specializes in hospice.

Woohoo grammar nazi war!

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Specializes in critical care.
Red Kryptonite said:
Woohoo grammar nazi war!

200 posts to Godwin!

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What about unable to differentiate the pronunciation of "Hypertensive" and "Hypotensive". Some people make them sound the same . . . ?! 

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Specializes in Emergency/Trauma/LDRP/Ortho ASC.

Rhab-do-my-alosis

WHY?

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ixchel said:
Nope.

Its is the possessive of it. I'm not sure there ever would be a plural version of its, which is what its' would be. It is singular.

Thank you. As soon as my sleep-fogged brain posted that this morning, I wondered if I was correct 

Sorry folks - no grammar war. I'm wrong!

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Specializes in critical care.
roser13 said:
Thank you. As soon as my sleep-fogged brain posted that this morning, I wondered if I was correct 

Sorry folks - no grammar war. I'm wrong!

If it makes you feel better, I spent years writing "grant it", instead of granted. 

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