"CENTI"meter vs "SONO"meter

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I have no idea why nurses feel the need to pronounce this simple word in such a rediculously affected manner. I was a physics and math major and not until nursing did I EVER hear someone pronounce centimeter as sonometer. It makes me want to hurl!!!

Specializes in Day Surgery/Infusion/ED.

I have to giggle at the whole "French aversion" thing. I guess that person is going to have to eliminate a lot of diagnoses and medical procedures from her vocabulary, since the medical field has so many of them.

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sassy7cassy said:

big shocker here. "Nuke-U-ler" is WRONG, no matter what language you speak.

No, it is just pronunciation - just like saying "sono" when it is spelled "cent".

My dh and I go round and round about "Almond". I pronounce the "L" in almond and he says "aaah" - mond, as in "absolutely".

Tomato is spelled a certain way and pronounced other ways.

It is the same with "nuclear" . .. .

And I was just acknowledging that it bugs me when people say "sono" but I'm ok with Bush saying "nucular" . . . .and I realize that is a bit hypocritical. So I was trying to be funny and nice about it - we all get our knickers in a knot about one thing or other.

steph

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stevielynn said:
No, it is just pronunciation - just like saying "sono" when it is spelled "cent".

My dh and I go round and round about "Almond". I pronounce the "L" in almond and he says "aaah" - mond, as in "absolutely".

Tomato is spelled a certain way and pronounced other ways.

It is the same with "nuclear" . .. .

And I was just acknowledging that it bugs me when people say "sono" but I'm ok with Bush saying "nucular" . . . .and I realize that is a bit hypocritical. So I was trying to be funny and nice about it - we all get our knickers in a knot about one thing or other.

steph

I think you need to check the spelling on that word--or is it just OK because it's GWB saying it that way? Show me how you get a "u" sound out of "ea," because it's absolutely fascinating the lengths to which some will go to refuse to admit when something is wrong.

And I didn't think it was funny or nice. You ridiculed me and others for pronoucing a word in an alternate (and correct, unlike "nucular") way. I am not a snob, I am not affected, but that's what you called me and others.

If that's your definition of "funny" or "nice," then you have an interesting dictionary.

"Sahntimeter, sahntimeter, sahntimeter."

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stevielynn said:
No, it is just pronunciation - just like saying "sono" when it is spelled "cent".

My dh and I go round and round about "Almond". I pronounce the "L" in almond and he says "aaah" - mond, as in "absolutely".

Tomato is spelled a certain way and pronounced other ways.

It is the same with "nuclear" . .. .

And I was just acknowledging that it bugs me when people say "sono" but I'm ok with Bush saying "nucular" . . . .and I realize that is a bit hypocritical. So I was trying to be funny and nice about it - we all get our knickers in a knot about one thing or other.

steph

But with tomato, you're just pronouncing vowels diffrently. With "nucular" you're adding a vowel that isn't even there, and taking one away.:rotfl: My husband says "nucular." Drives me nuts. He's not allowed to use that word around me-he has to say "atomic" instead.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

Here's a wild concept: pronounce it how you want.

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fergus51 said:
I'm Canadian and never spelled it centimetre when I was writing in English.

Weird huh? I know. My son is a level 2 student and in his math books it is spelled with re. We always spelled it that way. But in the grand scheme of things it's not important just different.

Célébrons nos différences! :p

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mad9 said:

Célébrons nos différences! :p

Great idea! :D

steph

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cyberkat said:
But with tomato, you're just pronouncing vowels diffrently. With "nucular" you're adding a vowel that isn't even there, and taking one away.:rotfl: My husband says "nucular." Drives me nuts. He's not allowed to use that word around me-he has to say "atomic" instead.

I say "nucular" on purpose just to get a rise out of my bush-hating friends. :saint:

steph

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stevielynn said:
I say "nucular" on purpose just to get a rise out of my bush-hating friends. :saint:

steph

Now, now, Steph. :clown:

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cyberkat said:
Now, now, Steph. :clown:

I know. :clown:

Something that might need it's own thread - I've noticed that since my best friend got married to a libertarian man her very conservative views have changed.

She is a born-again wacko Christian like me, saved in the 70's at a Billy Graham rally. I remember how sick to our stomachs we both felt when Clinton got elected.

Funny that now that she has been married to this very nice man who happens to be libertarian, her views have skewed left from her conservative views and she cannot stand President Bush.

I was a liberal when I married my husband and slowly over the years have become a conservative, due to many many conversations with him and then lots of reading on my own (not to mention listening to Rush and becoming a Christian).

I wonder truly how much influence our spouses have on us and vice versa.

steph

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Libertarians are fiscally conservative and socially liberal for the mere fact that they believe the government should not toodle around in such matters. However, I would not say that Libertarians are on the left side of the spectrum. (the party as a whole, of course people can go in whichever direction they choose)

My boyfriend is a Libertarian (dues-paying as he proudly says), and I am a Democrat. We agree on social issues but clash on fiscal policy. We're about 50/50 on foreign policy.

We've definitely had an effect on each other. Since we've been together I have greatly changed my stance on gun control and he's become much more compassionate, though he's still not a fan of social programs such a welfare, social security, etc. :kiss oh, well. We agree to disagree.

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sassy7cassy said:
Libertarians are fiscally conservative and socially liberal for the mere fact that they believe the government should not toodle around in such matters. However, I would not say that Libertarians are on the left side of the spectrum. (the party as a whole, of course people can go in whichever direction they choose)

My boyfriend is a Libertarian (dues-paying as he proudly says), and I am a Democrat. We agree on social issues but clash on fiscal policy. We're about 50/50 on foreign policy.

We've definitely had an effect on each other. Since we've been together I have greatly changed my stance on gun control and he's become much more compassionate, though he's still not a fan of social programs such a welfare, social security, etc. :kiss oh, well. We agree to disagree.

I just meant my friend was left of the conservative she used to be.

Since libertarians are fiscaly conservative and socially liberal, seems that the direction a conservative would have to go would be towards the left on social issues if they decided to go libertarian.

steph

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