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What is the deal with some dr's/nurses pronouncing
"centimeters" like "sontimeters"???? I've heard this a few times and it puzzles me. Are these people from Boston or something???
Big pet peeves--1. Why do people in New York insist on pronouncing words in new ways? Just so they know who's not from around there?
e.g. Chili = CHYE-lye
Charlotte = shah-LOTE
WHAT?!
This made me crack up. Here in Rochester (Rochistr) we have a town called Chili (Chye-lye) and I often go to Charlotte (Shar-lot) beach. you must have visited here lol.
Our spelling of the word seems to be different too. In canada, we spell it centimetre not centimeter.
In french it is spelled centimètre. Pretty much said the way it reads except the è has an a or au sound to it.
Our spelling for neighbour, colour and several more are just a wee bit different.
This made me crack up. Here in Rochester (Rochistr) we have a town called Chili (Chye-lye) and I often go to Charlotte (Shar-lot) beach. you must have visited here lol.
Yeah I posted that right after I returned from visiting my in laws in Webster! God I love Wegman's... I wish we had them here...
I grew up in Charlotte (like the Queen) and eat chillee on my burger....
I actually thought my dh was pulling my leg when he told me how to pronounce Chili and Charlotte, I refused to say them out loud until I heard them pronounced on the news
Yeah I posted that right after I returned from visiting my in laws in Webster! God I love Wegman's... I wish we had them here...![]()
I grew up in Charlotte (like the Queen) and eat chillee on my burger....
I actually thought my dh was pulling my leg when he told me how to pronounce Chili and Charlotte, I refused to say them out loud until I heard them pronounced on the news
lol. Webster is one town over from me.
Wegman's rocks. Did you get to the super wegmans in Pittsford? Its amazing.
i thought nurses that said sontameters where just old school. ( and i know there are old school nurses on here, so where are they?) i was also under the impression that orientate started as a joke and people ran with it like it was a real word.
yeah, i shouldn't get bent, but a lot of things irritate me. it's not how people pronounce things different r/t their origin/culture/dialect, what gets me is the than/then, sit/sat and all of that. it's bad grammer and it shows that these people really do not know the difference. (their, they're, there, you get my drift.)
I am an engineer transitioning to nursing school. I can tell you that in engineering it's called centimeters and that was with both US and UK instructors.
It is funny how we pronounce things the same/differently as they are spelled. My favorite is to pronounce baseline with the same vowel sounds as vaseline. Try it, vaseline, baseline, vaseline, baseline.
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I'm in NYC, and a lot of people say SONtimeter, not just in OB. I say CENTimeter, but I'm from CA. The people I'm seen say SONtimeter are...not the pretentious type.
And I've always heard NCLEX pronounce enklecks. When I first got to nurschool, I had NO idea how to say it, so I just called it "the licensing exam" until I heard enough people say it! I would have said ennseelex.
Steph, I heard the Man in Charge say "nuclear" instead of "nucular" the other day. I'm tempted to say it's a "just folks" affectation.
In re "aluminum" from Wikipedia (and this is fair use according to their policy, so I'm not breaking copyright laws!)
Pronunciations and spellings that kill me (Warning, I'm a grammar nerd)
*Your/you're, their/there/they're, its/it's. It is NOT. THAT. COMPLICATED.
*Orientate
*Dilitate
*Lose/Loose
*Breath/Breathe
*THeeYAYter. I know. Regional. Still drives me nuts.
*PHUH instead of PHO. I know Phuh is the correct pronunciation in Vietnamese, but NOBODY whose first language is English says it that way except the pretentious. Remember that Saturday Night Live skit with Jimmy Smits where everyone is saying things with an exaggerated Spanish accent, and he's actually Hispanic, and they pretend not to understand him? Comedy gold.
*I'm from Northern California, and we have a town called Vallejo. We say it Vuhlayho. Pity the native Spanish speaker who needs directions to Bayeho.
*I know someone whose last name is Desjardins. Now, I would pronounce it Dayjardehn, like the French would. However, she says it Desjardins, so whatever.