is it oriented or orientated?

[cokie]

what words do you hear consistently mispronounced.....my pet peeve is when people wish to say oriented, as in alert and oriented, and they actually say orientated....where are they getting the extra a and t......

[kimmicoobug]

I am in the Northwest and I get a kick out out of some of the pronunciations. "wash" is sometimes "warsh". "Washington" is "Warshington". I once asked an aunt what "squarsh" was. (I absolutely had no clue she meant a squash until she showed me one and then said "oh, you mean a SQUASH!...the evil looks I got).

[pickledpepperRN]

BelindaLPN,

"I had a nursing instructor who pronounced abdomen as abDOEmen. Made me want to laugh when she said it."

Wasn't that from Porgy and Bess?

"Jonah he lived in the whale

He made his home in

that fishes ab-DO-man

Oh Jonah he live in de whale"

[ShortFuse_LPN, LPN]

Porgy and Bess??

[pickledpepperRN]

Ops! Giving away my old age. George Gershwin American opera. Movie available on video.

If I recall Sidney Poitier was in the film with a dobbed in voice. Sammy Davis Jr. too, he did his own singing.

The funniest verse to me is:

"Methuslah lived nine hundred years (repeat)

But who calls it livin'

When no gal will give in

To no man what's nine hundred years"

really clever lyrics and great Gershwin jazz swing. First jazz opera i think.

http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/works/gershwin/porgy&bess.html

[ShortFuse_LPN, LPN]

Ah. Thanks, I'd never heard of it before.lol Maybe that's where she picked it up. I doubt it though....she also pronounced centimeters as sauntimeters.

[ruby360]

Oh my gosh!!! That has always really bugged me too. RNs or new nurses

at work frequenly say, "Are you still being orientated?" or "I'm not sure where

that is, I'm still being orientated." ect... Really bothers me. It's oriented, people ORIENTED! Saying orientated just sounds so unedjumakated.

[nimbex, RN]

okay, southern slang, but..... "he just done fell out!"

What?? ..... in the south, this means syncope.

geeze

[pickledpepperRN]

I "axed" him instead of I asked him.

the name ANN with 3 syllables from one part of Oklahoma (only older people)

"Ie ah ne"

[perfectbluebuildings, BSN, RN]

My instructors say "saunameters" too, and um-bi-LIKE-us! I have no idea where that saunameters thing came from, but it annoys the heck outta me! The there their they're and it's its stuff gets on my nerves too. Just call me the grammar police!! :)

[angelac1978]

how about "i'm gonna axe him a querstion" the head of HR where I work says this all the time! along with

"deeze" instead of "these"

"wiff" instead of "with"

"dem" instead of "them"

and my personal fave that she says, the CEO's name is Ruth but she calls her "Roof"

few other peeves that I hear in general

its "a long ROW to hoe" not "long road to hoe" refers to a row of corn, cotton, tobacco, etc

also "beck and call" instead of "beckon call" thats just ridiculous!:roll

[mlolsonny]

Originally posted by janfrn

He always says "sphincster" which makes me :rotfl: ...

"saunameters"

Satisfi-CAY-tion instead of satisfaction. These were from our medical terminology instructor. How in the world were we supposed to learn correct pronunciation from her???

My biggest pet peeve: UN-thaw. As if you're going to take something out then put it back to freeze again. Please, it's thaw.

[mamabear]

At last! My co-workers are constantly riding me about being too picky with spelling, sentance construction, etc. At last, I've found Heaven in an allnurses.com thread.

One that really galls me is something about "putting some food on your stomach". Whereabouts on the stomach? If food goes "on", what goes "in"?

I too cringe whenever I hear Mr. Bush say NOOK-yoo-ler. His wife is a teacher and/or a librarian, right? Maybe she's been trying all these years and finally realized she's fighting a losing battle (and I'm a registered Republican)