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?!

I still hear this from time to time, it drives me nuts:

"This is mine pen." and "This pen is mines." (Run, the pen will blow up?)

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I also miss adverbs. Terribly.

Just to give you hope for the future, I wanted to share what my 7 year old told me at church this past Sunday.

"This purse is ridiculously big for what I have in it."

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GrnTea said:

Medford, part of the greater Boston area, is pronounced "Muff'd" by the locals. Then there's the difference between Chatham ("Chat'm") and Wareham ("Ware-ham"), but these are related to the way they are pronounced in the regional dialects of the parts of England where you would find the originals.

ah! Worcester, Leicester, etc. Revere is Raveah, Brighton is BRI' ahan, .......I will think of more...

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I've heard a person from Medford pronounce it "Mhet-fd".

Up there there is a town called "CON-curd"; down here it is pronounced "Conn-chord".

Agree with your examples of Chat'm and Ware-ham.

Glosster (Gloucester),and Wusster or Wooster (Worchester), Noobree-port (Newburyport),

I once heard a tourist ask how to get to "Ip-sevick" (Ipswich)

Down here Catawba is mistakenly pronounced "Cata-waba".

No "h" in worcester....
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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

Oops on the Worcester, thanks for the correction!

We used to call Reveah the ahm-pit of the world.

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Red Kryptonite said:
Just to give you hope for the future, I wanted to share what my 7 year old told me at church this past Sunday.

"This purse is ridiculously big for what I have in it."

My son corrects my husband's grammar. I'm telling you, you and I would be BFFs. Apparently our kids would enjoy a play date, as well.

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ChellyFutureNP said:
This reminds me of my husband that pronounces breakfast as "brefix" and angina as "AN-gina" like lady parts. UGH. 

. Angina (an-JIE-nuh or AN-juh-nuh)

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

My grand-daughter used to use the word "apparently" ----correctly and appropriately----when she was 2 years old. It was pretty hysterical.

For instance, if her Pappaw was teasing her somehow, she would put a hand on her hip and say, "Apparently, YOU don't know who you're messing with!" 

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Mispronunciations don't bother me so much. The day I pronounce "metoprolol" correctly will be a happy one.

that's a good one.

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Tubular litigation, for tubal ligation. I always picture a brass-playing attorney.

For some strange reason, no one can pronounce Lisinopril. Can't even remember how it's mangled.

Attenol for atenolol.

Hyena hernia for hiatal hernia. (Picture laughing hyenas)

"I had my bladder removed" = gall bladder

Colonostomy = colonoscopy

Motrel, moprol = metoprolol

Arthro-scopey for arthROScopy

Linguini hernia for inguinal hernia

(Can you tell that I spend my days on the phone with mis-pronouncing patients?!)

Funny I'll have a linguini LOL

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

I have to say I don't go 'nuts' about most mispronunciations; mostly I find them interesting, amusing, and fun. A Vietnamese lady (who has been doing my nails for 8 years) and I have great times trying to figure out expressions of speech and the pronunciation differences between us; we laugh a lot!

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