What the what??

[pockunit]

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?

[JeneraterRN]

You say anGIna, I say ANgina.

I say ANgina because female chest painers thought I was talking about their female parts when I said the other.

[nursel56]

You say anGIna, I say ANgina.

Centimeter - Sahn-ta-meter

Dilitate- Dilate

Orient-orientate

I wish Ginger would sing us a new song. I've seen people almost go to war over those.

The only alternate spelling in UK English that freaks me out is all those extra a's and o's like orthopaedic, oesophageal diarrhoea, paediatrician and foetal! :) If they're silent get them outta there! I'm just joking and I do realize that since you spoke English in England first all of our changes are the b****** children.

The UK word for "shot" much more accurate "jab", though. :up:

[JessiekRN]

Biggest pet peeve ever.. orienTATE. No I will not orientate the new grad but I will gladly orient her. It's converse. Not conversate. I almost fell over when someone said interpretate today. I don't understand this at all but it completely aggravatates me.

[JeneraterRN]

Biggest pet peeve ever.. orienTATE. No I will not orientate the new grad but I will gladly orient her. It's converse. Not conversate. I almost fell over when someone said interpretate today. I don't understand this at all but it completely aggravatates me.

I hate that one, too. I've spouted off about it to multiple coworkers, but became curious. I looked it up in the New American Dictionary, and it is a word. It still sounds wrong.

[JessiekRN]

It IS?? Really?? I will stop complaining about its usage then! But it does still sound terrible, I agree..and I'm still willing to bet interpretate isn't in the dictionary yet. I think if enough people repeat the same word, eventually it's accepted and makes its way into the dictionary..it still rubs me the wrong way though!! :)

[PsychNurseWannaBe, BSN, RN]

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

doo-uh-dee-nuhm

[doomsayer]

Makes me think of all the PTs for whom I am supposed to instruct "smoking sensation". :)

[Neuro Guy NP, DNP, PhD, APRN]

Realize that "sella turcica" is a Latin phrase. In classical Latin, a "c" before and "e" or "i" is pronounced as a "k" such that her pronunciation is technically most accurate. I realize that's not how we say it in English, but her pronunciation from a classical Latin perspective is absolutely correct.

I know that because I speak six languages in addition to being able to read Latin (I mean, who am I going to speak Latin to? lol)

[Cessna172]

Had a classmate say eh-knee-muh for enema one day, thankfully he caught what he had said and quickly corrected himself. Ha ha..

[suanna]

I had an instructor that pronounced "carotid" as CArrot-oid" She was East Indian so there may have been some language anomaly I am unaware of, but I spent some time trying to find the carrot artery in my A&P book.

[elprup, BSN, RN]

sella turcica?

Hahahahahahahhiaha

[sapphire18]

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."

Yeah, what is with pronouncing "centimeter" as "sahn-ta-meet-er" in nursing??? Ughhh I hate it!