This has been really getting on my nerves lately...

[GregRN]

Okay, it's HIPAA, not HIPPA. And, it's JCAHO, not JACHO. And, another one that's been getting to me lately: it's spelled "definitely", not "definately".

Thanks for listenting. Okay. Much better now...

[Cymy]

Speaking of Typos...Mistakes...Mislabeling...

I went to the grocery store last night and while my husband and I were checking out the steaks we noticed one label looked weird...We were correct! It had a chicken breast label on it! There were about 5 labeled incorrectly...I almost fell over. My husband and I were giggling like 2 little kids in the store. We had to share this with a few people...So, all of us were laughing! He tried to take a picture of it with his cell phone but it didn't work...DARN IT! I would have loved to send that one into Jay Leno's show...

We probably should have checked the Chicken out...

My husband and I went grocery shopping a few weeks ago and got three packages of chicken breasts for between $0.15 and $0.19 each. We didn't notice until we got home that the packages were marked completely incorrectly! It was about $20 worth of chicken!

[TazziRN, RN]

No, splinters are what you get after you pass boards.

Ow.............

[withasmilelpn]

Can't stand "idear" for idea or want to "have a catch" when inviting someone to play catch the ball. And I definitely can't abide typos in newspapers or books, isn't that what the editor's job is to do? I do think it's funny how my spelling ability has decreased with age!

[buddhak0n]

Okie dokie and the Okiefenokie.... Do the Hippa Hippie shake and catch me on the down low with lingo Jay Ko......

[RNOTODAY, BSN, RN]

Heres one, which is correct?

I stood in line at the bank . or

I stood on line at the bank.

[RNOTODAY, BSN, RN]

One I can't stand.... Let me aKs you something, rather than... Let me aSk you something....

another one:

What happen? (after you say something to a person, and they didn't hear you, they answer with that)

I want to scream.... In actuality, I think it sounds rude... I *always* say..."Nothing *happened*. I asked you.... bla bla bla." ... They usually just look at me like I have ten heads. But I say it anyway.

[RNOTODAY, BSN, RN]

"Prolly" is not a grammar issue, it's internet shorthand according to my daughter.

I use "probly" , rather than "prolly" ... same number of letters, but makes more sense!!! ( to me, anyway)

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

Prolly is a word people use, not just for shorthand on the internet.

How about "where you at?"

or "sholl is......" for "sure is".

They say "aks" for "ask" around here too.

I'm not really bothered by local or regional sayings and phrases in casual convernsations, or on the internet. I'm easy going that way. Prolly shouldn't post here, since it don't bother me none. I'm fiddin' to go to another thread, but I ain't sure where I at.

Actually I am bothered when people post in text message talk as if we charged here by the letter. "u" "ur", etc. bug me. I bet you anything when kids are turning in papers in grade school they are putting in "u" and "ur" thinking that is an o.k. way to write. LOL :)

[Beeanurse]

Ya know what bugs a "phrase" , here it goes: It's the same difference" How can it be the same difference???? Its either the same or different.

[arizonanurse]

Okay, these are my pet peeves. It doesn't get to me when I read it but when someone says it, oh my gosh, it's like nails grating on a chalkboard.

umbil-EYE-cus (accent on the third syllable) instead of umBILicus

"reversible isolation" - we have a night nurse that says this - it is reverse isolation, guys, please

"sonometers" instead of centimeters - This one really gets to me. Especially one time when a night nurse was giving me report and told me my patient with a draining abscess had a "five sonometer opening." Now I'd had her the previous day and the opening was about a half a centimeter, so I said, "What??!! Yesterday it was barely this big" and held my fingers a half a centimeter apart. She said, "Yes, that's how big it is, I thought that was five sonometers." But then again, that was also the nurse who didn't check O2 sats on the two babies with RSV all night because she didn't think the O2 sat machine should be going into contaminated rooms. :angryfire

[TrudyRN]

I am a spelling freak as everyone knows. I try to hold my ire but those things are just part of the slanguage of netspeak. You just gotta take the thorns with the roses as Aunt Lila used to say.

No, it's not slanguage. :uhoh21: Perish the thought. It's misspelling.

Occurrence (not occurrance).

We have really got to teach people how to spell. The glaring mistakes we make here really need to stop. Maybe if we all remind people nicely...

[Ado Annie, ASN, RN]

Oh, or around here it's "Walmark"

LOL. My dad says Walmark... my mom always corrects him.

My husband can't pronounce ibuprofen for anything. I wish he'd just call it Advil (even though we buy store brand).

I work with some well educated people who say "acrost" instead of "across".

And warsh... well, someone once asked where the "r" was in wash, and the answer was "OK, where's the "r" in colonel?". My dad grew up in a town named Washington, and fullly 80% of the population would tell you they live in "Warshington".

My mother and sister were always very correct and precise about the English language, so it rubbed off a bit on me. My sister teaches English.

And in closing, "ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put."