Pronunciation

Drysolong · Apr 20, 2006

One of my teachers always said SONTimeters. I just thought he was pronouncing it wrong as he did so many other words. Well, now I see, at least there is a basis for this pronunciation.

In Georgia. Ponce de Leon is ponce da LE-on; Martinez= Mar-ti-NEZ, and Houston is HOUSE-ton, but coming from California, to the day I die I will say Ponce day Lay-ON, Mar-TEE-nez and HOOS-ton.

I've never heard anyone pronounce fillet as FILL-et

Nurse-o-Matic · Apr 20, 2006

Another one... Orient vs orientate! It gives me the heebie jeebies to hear that the patient was "OR-EEE-EN-TAY-TED to the unit."

?!?!

elkpark · Apr 20, 2006

In Illinois, there is a town called Morificeilles, pronounced Mar-SALES. Don't ask me what that has to do with anything! :rotfl:
oldiebutgoodie

I lived in Ohio for a few years, and there was a town of Versailles, OH (pronounced "Ver-SALES" ) in the listening area of the public radio station. There was a bed & breakfast in Versailles that advertised on the public radio station (sponsored some shows) and used the original (French) pronounciation of the name, which led to frequent announcements on the radio station that a particular show was being brought to us by "The Inn at Ver-SIGH, in Ver-SALES." :uhoh21:

CEG · Apr 20, 2006

One of my teachers always said SONTimeters. I just thought he was pronouncing it wrong as he did so many other words. Well, now I see, at least there is a basis for this pronunciation.
In Georgia. Ponce de Leon is ponce da LE-on; Martinez= Mar-ti-NEZ, and Houston is HOUSE-ton, but coming from California, to the day I die I will say Ponce day Lay-ON, Mar-TEE-nez and HOOS-ton.
I've never heard anyone pronounce fillet as FILL-et

I used to live in Marti-NEZ!

Once when I was younger some friends and I were joking around and pronoucing fajitas "fa-JI-tas at a restaraunt. A lady came and scolded us for talking that way in front of her children. I guess she thought we were saying lady parts? Is that a dirty word? I guess she would have prefered if we talked about our pee-pees at the table instead of fa-JI-tas, LOL.

Katnip, RN · Apr 20, 2006

LOL, I'm from northern Ohio and always pronounced Versailles as Ver-Sigh. Probably because I took French in school.

I say CENTimeter, and ant for aunt. We also grew up calling soft drinks pop, but here it's called soda.

I've never heard anybody pronounuce filet as fill-et. It's always been fil-ay to me.

allnurses Guide · Apr 20, 2006

LOL, I'm from northern Ohio and always pronounced Versailles as Ver-Sigh. Probably because I took French in school.
I say CENTimeter, and ant for aunt. We also grew up calling soft drinks pop, but here it's called soda.
I've never heard anybody pronounuce filet as fill-et. It's always been fil-ay to me.

I say "soda pop".

W/O getting into people's motives for saying "sont" . .. . I have to say that it still sounds pretentious to me, whether a person means it or not.

I realize different parts of our country pronounce things in a different way though and I'm all for it - makes language interesting.

Now, what about all the bashing that goes on with pronouncing "Nucular" vs. "Nuclear"? Could that just be a regional thing too??

steph

gr8rnpjt, RN · Apr 20, 2006

ElkPark, you have me ROFL laughing again!
Same reasons people pull bed sheets "taunt"... people buying houses use
"relators"... exacerbations are "exasperations"... Cardizem is "Cardiazem"... fibrillation is "fibulation"... I could go on and on... but my toes are curling up...

:lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

allnurses Guide · Apr 20, 2006

There are many folks where I work that say "Alz-timers".

And the same folks say "orientate".

steph

letina · Apr 20, 2006

Another one... Orient vs orientate! It gives me the heebie jeebies to hear that the patient was "OR-EEE-EN-TAY-TED to the unit."
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Glad you brought this one up.......here in England, 'orient' means 'eastern' as in an eastern country.......'orientate' means 'briefing' or 'familiarisation'.....so when I come to work in the US and have my introduction time at my new workplace, will I be 'orienting' or will it be 'orientation' :uhoh3: .......seriously, need to know, don't wanna make anyone cringe :lol2:

allnurses Guide · Apr 20, 2006

Glad you brought this one up.......here in England, 'orient' means 'eastern' as in an eastern country.......'orientate' means 'briefing' or 'familiarisation'.....so when I come to work in the US and have my introduction time at my new workplace, will I be 'orienting' or will it be 'orientation' .......seriously, need to know, don't wanna make anyone cringe

You can use both those words. I will be orienting to a new unit or I will be attending an orientation . .both fine.

It is "orientate" that sounds funny.

"I orientated today" . . . "He is going to orientate me" . . .:uhoh21:

steph

beautifulb · Apr 20, 2006

That is so funny! I have thought the same thing with "sont" vs. "cent." "Sont" does sound a little pretentious. I know that I cringe when I hear it but I didn't know why. I first heard it in nursing school and I remember wondering if it was different then centimeters.

As a side note, I can't stand it when people say "O2 stat" for "O2 sat."

MissJoRN, RN · Apr 20, 2006

And how about "dilation" vs. "dilitation"??
DILITATION is not a word, from what I can tell, and yet many people (usually the same ones who use "Sahntimeter" ;-) pronounce it this way.
oldiebutgoodie

I wondered if this would come up. Those are the two new words I remember learning in OB (I'm sure I learned several others! But those all came more naturally)

Some people always seem to say dilation; some dilitation; some say dilated, dilating, but still dilitation? and the texts, etc seem to vary in the spelling of the preferred word. I'm curious about that etiology?

At least I'm glad to know why that instructor always said sonimeters! Funny that I've heard centimeters in every other specialty, though. Wounds are in centimters, liquids are in cubic centimeters (or were until JCAHO intervened), drains are in centimeters, but a cervix is in sonimeters...