What the what??

MarieRandwood · Dec 9, 2011

My instructor says PIT-acin instead of pitocin. Drives me nuts!

iteachob, MSN, RN · Dec 9, 2011

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!!!

English is strange. Here's a poem to prove it!

https://spelling.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/english-pronunciation/

CompleteUnknown · Dec 9, 2011

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!!!

Hi Merlee, I've always been interested in language (not that you'd ever know it from my posts lol) and accents, and the differences in slang, spelling and pronunciation in various places. Where do they say p-neumothorax?

And yes, english is strange indeed!

ETA: I LOVE the poem

leslie :-D · Dec 9, 2011

i never did figure out the correct way to say duodenum.

i've heard accents on different syllables...du - O -denum...duo - DE - num.

i suppose i can look it up, next time i'm discussing intestines.

leslie

merlee · Dec 10, 2011

leslie - - is that in TEST ins or in tes TINES ???

CompleteUnknown - over 30 years ago I lived and worked in Israel. And the 'p' is pronounced the way it is in apnea or dyspnea. So it is not PEE-neumonia, but pneumonia.

And many words have a local spin to them.

I loved the poem. Suess wrote a book with some of that stuff. Enough.

Anisettes, BSN, RN · Dec 10, 2011

I don't think this one is necessarily wrong, but I had an instructor who always said res-PYRE-RA-tory. She also said vege-TABLE which drove me equally crazy - strange how a non-nursing word was said so often that semester. Or maybe I only remember it because it was pronounced so strangely. I also went to high school with a gym teacher who said va-GEEN-a. Ugh! I don't know why odd pronunciations are so irritating.

PsychNurseWannaBe, BSN, RN · Dec 10, 2011

Had one instructor who pronounced Prilosec as Prill-o-sec antibiotic as anti-bee-otic.[/quote']
My MD calls it PRILL osec. I looked stupid when I said it to a different doctor. LOL

PsychNurseWannaBe, BSN, RN · Dec 10, 2011

meto - prolol or meh tope rlol? And can I just off topic this a bit. Its O2 SAT not O2 STAT... geez.

That Guy, BSN, RN, EMT-B · Dec 10, 2011

Its O2 SAT not O2 STAT... geez.

Thank you! I see this charted so often. Is it an o2 staturation! No so quit it with the extra t

ChristineN, BSN, RN · Dec 10, 2011

My biggest pet pev is when people say dia beeetus instead of diabetes. I have a nursing instructor that say dia beetus constantly and it annoys me.

mindlor · Dec 10, 2011

HAHA mine says um-buh-like-us, I always giggle and she always glares at me ROFLMAO

teeniebert, LPN · Dec 10, 2011

I had an instructor who said, "ab-DOE-men," another who said, "intestInes" (with a long I in the last syllable), and yet another who referred to the round mark on a newborn's head from vacuum-assisted delivery a "shih-GON". I won't get into classmates and co-workers.