Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

psu_213, BSN, RN · Mar 14, 2015

TheBlackDogWaits said:

Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything

^^Love

Guest03/15/15, BSN, RN · Mar 15, 2015

I just stick with dilantin ?

kalycat said:

Who wants to enlighten me on phenytoin? I've usually gone with feen-I-toyn on the basis that the prefix is similar to phenobarb...but I'd be lying if I said my brain and tongue didn't do battle every time that one comes around. I've also heard fen-I-toe-in.

prmenrs, RN · Mar 19, 2015

This is a tough word to pronounce unless you are an Infection Control Practitioner or a Public Health Nurse: epidemiology. I heard one nurse say "epididimology". Nope, wrong system!

Triedyou · Mar 20, 2015

I am that nurse that mispronounces ever word incorrectly, to include wataver, However I am also the same nurse that understands when someone says umbilical cord they mean umbilicus. OMG IDK ac and pc confuse me, before what meal and after which meal, before breakfast or after diner. A thousand ml. or on liter. Promethazine, Lopressor, pericardium to pericardial sack. I use word to communicate an nothing more. As per what is prewritten Rx I accept what understand and inquire into what I do not. By the way, does the use of contraction mean you are lazy and or uneducated as I was told as child?

lilhemc · Mar 20, 2015

I cannot, for the life of me, pronounce "sphygmomanometer". I am glad that now they use the electronic one called "blood pressure machine".

No Stars In My Eyes · Mar 20, 2015

Knew a girl in HS who could not pronounce 'Boulevard',no matter how hard she tried, she always said 'Buvelard.'

Sometimes we get a tongueled tang, and things come out backwards or inside-out. In my family the big joke was the name Patty Duke. One of us said Datty Puke once and we never got over it. To this day I have to consciously stop and think before I can say Patty Duke!

ixchel · Mar 20, 2015

lilhemc said:

I cannot, for the life of me, pronounce "sphygmomanometer". I am glad that now they use the electronic one called "blood pressure machine".

This will sound nuts, so bare with me, but I say the word to this song:

Sphygma!-mana!-meter.

No Stars In My Eyes · Mar 20, 2015

ixchel,

I thoroughly enjoyed the video!

When I was in nsg. school, I kind of did the same thing, putting something I had to remember to a tune I knew well. It doesn't always help that even now I am still apt to break out in song when certain subjects arise. But, at least I am easily amused and enjoy myself tremendously, even if the habit does garner me weird looks. I have, with age, learned to tamp down the exuberance when it is inappropriate. But, now, when I get a little older, I won't have to; everyone will roll their eyes at the dotty old lady who sings at the drop of a hat!

Long Term Care Columnist / Guide · Mar 20, 2015

No Stars In My Eyes said:

Knew a girl in HS who could not pronounce 'Boulevard',no matter how hard she tried, she always said 'Buvelard.'
Sometimes we get a tongueled tang, and things come out backwards or inside-out. In my family the big joke was the name Patty Duke. One of us said Datty Puke once and we never got over it. To this day I have to consciously stop and think before I can say Patty Duke!

My family does stuff like that all the time, but the best was Bates Nut Farm, which I accidentally called Nate's Butt Farm. They have never let me live that one down, and to this day I have to think really hard before I say it.

Mesmerize · Mar 20, 2015

icuRNmaggie said:

"new bang" for nubain

Ahahahaha OMG I'm dying

Canucker2014 · Mar 20, 2015

I was a high school bio teacher for 4 years. The amount of times I heard my students mispronounce 'Organism' as 'Orgasm' would always get me. I giggled like a girl everytime!

allnurses Guide · Mar 20, 2015

Otolaryngology (pronounced oh/toe/lair/in/goll/oh/jee) is the oldest medical specialty in the United States..........

I can't say this one.