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Sella turkey-ka. I just heard a NURSING INSTRUCTOR (in our program but not my teacher) say sella turkey-ka in a lecture podcast. TWICE.

Is it too much to ask that people read through their notes and, you know, look stuff up if they don't know how to say it? Hypo-fisis? Nope.

I don't expect my teachers to be perfect; god know's I'm not, but for pete's sake, could you at least know how to say the things you're supposed to be teaching us?

I went to medical assisting school before I was a R.N.

The instructor there pronounced dyspnea and tachypnea "dis-peenia and tacky-peenia"

I shudder to think of how many MAs went out into the world pronouncing it that way.

I was too shy to correct her but on my last day of class I left a note on her desk correcting the pronounciation. can't remember if I signed it or not.

And don't get me started on my BIO teacher who talked about ecosystems and "all the polar bears and penguins living at the north pole."

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Sella turkey-ka sounds like a delicious italian dish.

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Specializes in Infectious Disease, Neuro, Research.
nurse told me the kid with an earache had otis meatus. Really? And just how do you assess THAT meatus?

Don't know any kids with that problem- seem to be a few politicians suffering from it though...:D

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HAHAAH funny stuff :)

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Specializes in ICU.

I have more than one instructor that says, "DIL-IH-TATE" instead of dilate.

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Had one instructor who pronounced Prilosec as Prill-o-sec, antibiotic as anti-bee-otic.

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Specializes in Infectious Disease, Neuro, Research.
Had one instructor who pronounced Prilosec as Prill-o-sec antibiotic as anti-bee-otic.[/quote']

Speaker of the Kings' English, pu-hops? :cool: Caint unnerstan summa them Ur-o-peens.:D

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Specializes in Med Tele, Gen Surgical.

Perpetual statement of "vay-so dill-uh-tay-shun" in cardiac lectures that then segued into medications like "vay-so dill-uh-tate-ers." I couldn't stop giggling because my mind found the gutter and could only think of sildenafil.

And I still cringe when I hear nurses say "um-buh-like-us" and "sahn-ta-meet-er."

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Specializes in OB, NICU, Nursing Education (academic).

Easier to just say "turkish saddle" I suppose......which is what it means.

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Try living in 5 different states and a foreign country during the course of your career. Every place has their quirky pronounciations, and slang words as well.

When I lived overseas, the 'p' was pronounced in words like pneumonia. After all we do say it in apnea, don't we? P-neumothorax was hard for me to get used to saying, but it was expected there!

And English has too many choices sometimes -- why is a 'c' sometimes an 's' and sometimes a 'k'. I think we should just drop the 'c' from our language !!!!

Our language is very strange!!!

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Specializes in Trauma Surgery, Nursing Management.

Oh I just hate LAP-er-o SCOPE-ey. Really? SERIOUSLY?

And since when did the pharynx become a FARE-nix?

I could go on...

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First semester nursing school...explaining my rationales for each med I was giving that day.....couldnt understand why the instructor giggled at me each time I said ass-a-teem-an-if-en (aceteminophen LOL)

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