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...

"All timer's disease" instead of Alzheimer's disease. :banghead: I hear people say it that way all the time!!

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Zink for Sink! I can't stand that!

Or putting an S on the end of Walmart or washing powder. It's walmart not walmarts. It's washing powder not powders.

Speaking of wash, how about worsh for wash!

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Specializes in urology, pediatrics, med-surg.

Oh, or around here it's "Walmark"

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Specializes in Geriatrics, MS, ICU.
I know up in the NE where I'm from, we often don't "turn off" a light, we "close the light". Makes no sense, but some of these can be used to actually figure out where a person is from, which is kind of cool. Any others have regional phrases they use, even though they know they're wrong?

That's funny...I am from NJ and most of us say "Shut the light"...Very Funny...or...Too funny...or...So funny....:lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

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"All timer's disease" instead of Alzheimer's disease. :banghead: I hear people say it that way all the time!!

I've heard of "Old Timer's" disease too. My A&P professor, who is an MD as well as an RN, has difficulty pronouncing any word with more than three syllables. Unfortunately, there are a lot of those in A&P, and many of us students haven't actually learned the word before. When he reads the powerpoints to us (of course that's the extent of his lectures) he stumbles every time he gets to the big words. I also assume he has a TA prepare the powerpoints and doesn't proofread them himself, because there are typos and missing words all over the place. He doesn't usually bother to fill in the blanks either - I have to follow along with my textbook and take fresh notes for anything to make sense. Sorry for the rant, but this is a major annoyance to me! I was also spelling bee champ 3 years running at my school when I was a kid...so I am a little anal.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, MS, ICU.

I have to admit to these....

I say "Dressa' Drwaaa" all of the time. Drives my good friend (English Teacher) absolutly insane!

And, I am not talking..."I'm Talkin' to ya"

I guess it is a Jersey thing....;)

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I hate when people use double negatives. "She don't have nothing to drink." That drives me crazy! :trout:

I Also Hate When People Post Like This It Is So Hard To Read For Some Reason.

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I hate when people use double negatives. "She don't have nothing to drink." That drives me crazy! :trout:

I Also Hate When People Post Like This It Is So Hard To Read For Some Reason.

It also seems like it would be so much more time consuming to type every single word beginning with a capital letter!

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Specializes in Day Surgery/Infusion/ED.
I overheard a CPR instructor say " Sedimentary Lifestyle" in her class and not sedintary lifestyle. :lol2:

Well, you also have it wrong. It's "sedentary."

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

Or how about a post that goes on and on and it has a lot of detail but the whole post goes on and on and the person just keeps talking on and on about what happened who it happened to on and on for how long on and on and oh my gosh would you be lieve this went on and on.

And it's one large paragraph of ONE heck of a run-on sentence.

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You are a nurse after my own heart.

But, just so you know, periods and commas go inside quotes, ie. "she said she was neurotic about punctuation, and alas she truly is a tortured soul."

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Specializes in ICU/PCU/Infusion.

"fixin to"

like, like in every single sentence like. ugh.

ambuhlate (spoken) instead of ambUlate. grrr.

I'm sure there are more, I just can't think of them at the moment! :)

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