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?!

[EwaAnn]

FlyingScot said:

Press and hold the letter you want to put an accent character over and options will pop up.

C'est plus facile!

Good to know thanks

[NevadaFighter, BSN, RN]

umbilicus

Merriam-Webster Pronunciation

[ixchel]

NevadaFighter said:

umbilicus

Merriam-Webster Pronunciation

I think we should just get rid of this word altogether. Genuinely, I hate it.

[canigraduate]

ixchel said:

Samwich.

This is what I picture when I hear "samwich":

How did you get a picture of my family reunion?

[ixchel]

How did you get a picture of my family reunion?

I'm stalking you. When you get that feeling someone is watching you in the shower, that's me.

[canigraduate]

That's two keyboards, now, Ix.

"I always feel like

somebody's waaatching meeeeee!"

Now I'm all paranoid, LOL!!

[Ado Annie, ASN, RN]

I don't pronounce the t in often. Or in soften.

[Ado Annie, ASN, RN]

My husband does this. Like nails on a chalkboard

[ixchel]

canigraduate said:

That's two keyboards, now, Ix.

"I always feel like

somebody's waaatching meeeeee!"

Now I'm all paranoid, LOL!!

I can afford keyboards. Not computers.

[nursehaley91, BSN, RN]

Before I started nursing school I had heard my doctor pronounce hypokalemia HY-POK-A-LEMIA. Once we started learning about it in school, my instructor kept pronouncing it HYPO-KALEMIA. The first time I said it the way I had heard the doctor pronounce it, EVERYONE jumped all over me and laughed at me. It still doesn't sound right for me to say it the second way but I do now so people won't judge me haha.

[BrandonLPN, LPN]

I don't pronounce the t in often. Or in soften.

I don't care how many people tell me I'm wrong, I'll always prounounce the t in often.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone prounounce the t in soften, though.

[Ado Annie, ASN, RN]

This was supposed to be a response to someone's comment:mispronounciation.

Dangit! It did it again. Apologies, I'm just getting accustomed to using the tablet version. These posts were intended to be responses to other posts.