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?!

[sonar]

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

You didn't take physics, did you? Circuits are opened and closed. Electricians and engineers will say opened/closed instead of on/off.

[sonar]

Sorry if already mentioned...

DI-uh-late instead of DI-late

[psu_213, BSN, RN]

"Dilutent" instead of "diluent."

[sonar]

Sorry, one more. Similar to someone's post about the mispronunciation of Guillain-Barré (okay, it's French, so I get it's hard)... pronouncing Raynaud's phonetically instead of Ray-NOHZ. I did take French for several years, so these probably bother me more.

[NutmeggeRN, BSN]

Non medical but the word

"Irregardless" drives me nuts.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=irregardless

Urban Dictionary

Top Definition. irregardless. Used by people who ignorantly mean to say regardless. According to Webster, it is a word, but since the prefix "ir" and the suffix "less" ...

[lilhemc]

My coworker corrects everybody who pronounces SCD's "scuds", she would say: "Scuds are missiles! It's S-C-D!" Every time.

[nursemeanie]

My ex-mother in law has a few. It's library, not li-berry. Sometimes you vomit bile, not vile! Someone to blame is a scapegoat, not "an escape goat"

[whofan, ADN, BSN, RN]

the migs and kigs are military terms...probably the person you got report from was former military or married to one.

[ixchel]

"Dilutent" instead of "diluent."

GUILTY!

[kidzcare]

the migs and kigs are military terms...probably the person you got report from was former military or married to one.

I did not know those were military terms! I've just picked them up from other nurses and use them pretty frequently. It saves precious, precious seconds when naming and counting off 50 controlled substance cards of medication.

[psu_213, BSN, RN]

I did not know those were military terms! I've just picked them up from other nurses and use them pretty frequently. It saves precious, precious seconds when naming and counting off 50 controlled substance cards of medication.

Plus I have also used "mikes per kig per minute." (I don't shorten the "minute" part, but I have heard others say "min.")

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

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Oh, lighten up! We're just having fun here. No one has said that they actually correct anyone.

Although I did, in a moment of confusion, correct an otherwise brilliant colleague when she told me she and her husband were driving to Vermont to see the "FOY-ledge." I was sure I had mis-heard her. "What?"

"The changing colors on the trees."

"Oh, you mean foliage (FO-lee-azh). It's from the French, means 'leaves.' "

Another misplaced letter leading to amusing results.