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

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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...

Specializes in OB.

my gramma called her dresser a "Chester Drawers" I think she was referring to chest of drawers- c,mon she is 94, cut her some slack

my ex bil calles gnats " naggits"- dunno guess they are a cross between gnats and maggots. He is also the one who calls an umbrella an "underbrella"- no slack needed for him, he is just pretty much a dumb nut:chuckle

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Specializes in OB.

oh and i forgot his other one " scream door"

seriously.

I am not jokin' folks! :)

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I can be a "spelling police person" too.

I make typos frequently: I can say what I'm thinking faster than my ability to type it; my distal fingers don't strike the keys as hard or well as thumbs & forefingers can.

Usually, I am the person my coworkers will ask to spell a procedure or descriptive term.

I don't always get it right if I haven't read the word at least once.

Particularly if it's not being pronounced correctly, & I'm unfamiliar with it.

I can then only try to spell it phonetically at best.

Unfortunately, writing skills have gone by the way side in American culture.

Friends & family love to receive letters from me but don't reciprocate, & want me to write their papers/reports for them on a regular basis.

I've written Inservice documents, don't get credit for it other than, "Thanks, this looks good", & have learned not to say yes anymore.

It takes time & skill to research & write documents that can stand up to the scrutiny of hospital bureaucracy, thank you very much!

Burn me once, shame on you, burn me twice shame on me!

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Specializes in icu,ccu, er, corrections.

Spelling errors in this forum doesn't bother me, but I absolutely hate to see mistakes on posters and such that the hospitals post.

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Specializes in IMC, ICU, Telemetry.

"Where are you at" & various other variations.

It's "This is s/he" not her/him.

"Orientated" also rubs me the wrong way. According to Websters, it is a real word when referring to facing the east (intransitive verb). But oriented is the correct term for acquainting to a new environment (transitive verb). freedictionary.com doesn't seem to agree with this interpretation - but I've always preferred m-w.com anyway.

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my gramma called her dresser a "Chester Drawers" I think she was referring to chest of drawers- c,mon she is 94, cut her some slack

my ex bil calles gnats " naggits"- dunno guess they are a cross between gnats and maggots. He is also the one who calls an umbrella an "underbrella"- no slack needed for him, he is just pretty much a dumb nut:chuckle

Ha! My father & mother-in-law both say "chester drawers." My husband actually says it, too! It's always sounded so funny to me!:lol2:

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The "prolly" thing, while used as slang on-line, also comes out of my daughter's mouth. Probably doesn't exist for her. "We'll prolly go to the movies tonite."

Take note, I frequently make typos. I happen to be married to "you all's" nightmare. I have to edit EVERYTHING he writes. His boss told him (after he sent out a memo) to NEVER, EVER send another memo without him checking it.

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Specializes in nursery, L and D.

the one that bothers me is "flustrated"....seems to be a combo of flustered and frustrated.....drives me crazy

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Specializes in Lie detection.

another one:

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[color=#483d8b]you did not loose your money. your pants feel loose.

[color=#483d8b]i am not a loser for posting this!

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[color=#483d8b]typos i really don't mind, i certainly make enough of them with my fast fingers and slow brain.

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Specializes in floor to ICU.

PhenerGRAN:nono:

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'I've got' instead of I have......

'people' instead of persons

orientated is correct....English usage more than here in usa

and the to,two, too issue

there,they're, their issue

and one i commit....on occasion.....loose/lose...try to remember moose, it helps

just looked up nauseated...'feeling or suffering from nausea' though it is falling out of favor....

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"I looked at the monitor and seen that the pt was in V-tach."

"I seen the ..."

When someone says "gooms" instead of "gums."

The verbal slaughter of cardizem.

I think the one that bugged me the most was when I was in nursing school. I had a class that met for 8 hours, one day a week. The instructor was disorganized and there was no flow to the lectures. One day my instructor kept referring to "Corporal Munally." She would frequently say "just like Corporal Munally does," or "you remember I told you how Corporal Munally did that." Notes were flying back and forth between the students asking who Corporal Munally was. Anyhow, 2 hours into the lecture I realized that "Corporal Munally" was actually "cor pulmonale!" The only reason I figured it out was that I was able to piece together enough of what she was talking about to recognize the basic clinical picture of cor pulmonale. I had to leave class for the day because I didn't think I would be able to make it through the next 6 hours without screaming at this woman. Yes, she was born and raised here in the states, as were her parents.

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