Many drugs have unusual names and are hard to pronounce. Every day we hear strange pronunciations and they always bring a smile to our faces. It's normally done by patients but also by pharmacy staff and even pharmacists.

The Electronic Medicines Compednium has produced a Medicines guides for patients. These also include the correct way to pronounce the drug. http://www.medicines.org.uk/guides

For example, Bendroh-flu-meth-eye-ahzide and Dye-peer-rid-ah-mole.

Co-codamol

@Jonesy147: my grandmother used to say 'co-dominal' rather than co-codamol

@Clareylang: Codramol,

Bendroflumethiazide

@SowTomorrow: Try keeping a straight face at an old lady who says "it's those tablets that sound like 'Bend Me OverTheFireside'!"

@impure3 I think bendro-whatsit is the most common :-)

Clopidogrel

@arleniebeanie: clopiDOGrel!

@jonathanmason: "cloppy dog rell"

@SusieMinney: Cloppy-dog-rel

@mrdispenser: Sloppydogrel

Paracetamol

@alkemist1912: I'm sure one of my older patients asks for -barry-shit-em-alls

@kevfrost: honourable mention forparacetamoxybendrofruseneomyocin?

Ibuprofen

@SusieMinney: Ibooprofen (from a fellow pharm tech)

@HelenRoot: izobuzafen

@pillmanuk: eye-boo-pho-fen

Omeprazole

@Clareylang: Codramol, Ompazol,

Louise Isobel Henry: Omi prazolly

Miscellaneous

@googlybear84: Diposlack Ointment (Diprosalic) , Primigone(Piriton) & Calvaline Cream (Calamine)

@PatelSuk: Staff dispense Naftidoodidaties (naftidrofuryl)

@EmmTurner: woman on phone asking if we had something in stock 'sexisenadine' (fexofenadine).

@jonathanmason: I had a patient who referred to her "niffy dip ins"

@jonathanmason: my old gran referred to Movelat as move-it gel

@HelenRoot: And the obvious anus-ol

@tonyrob77: also like Cacit pronounced as 'Kackit' and Fybogel pronounced as 'Fi-boh-gull'

@darkvignette: Once got asked for some Robin Cousins cough medicine (Robitussin)

@tonyrob77: always remember an old lady asking me for 'Methadone Tonic' (she meant Metatone of course)

@SowTomorrow: Ferocious sulphate.

@Suepharm: Had elderly gent asking for Neck. Finally turned out to be Head and Shoulders.

@EmilyJaneBond82: discojesus (distalgesic) and CandyStatton (candesartan) my two favs

@Lauraberrycakes: Lansarope (as in sounds like the place Lansarote) for lansoprazole!

@frandavi99: i-prat-opium

@cathrynjbrown: hali-bori-orange as well :)

@mraparmar: I've got a pt who's adamant her blood pressure meds are called "Rap-ri-mil"...I don't have the heart to tell her she's wrong.

@arleniebeanie: also had dippymole instead of dipyridamoleonce!

@Mumgonecrazy: flufloxacillin

@Planet_Jackie: One guy asked for his 'sillyarse' tablets......he meant Cialis LOL

@MaryP58: slimvastatin - so close. The marketing team missed a trick there.

@pillmanuk: a-rato-va-stan

@alkemist1912: Lactu-loose!!!

Selinahuihoong: Celebrate instead of Celebrex

@Cathrynjbrown: I always enjoy monkeylast :)

@Planet_Jackie: An old lady handed me a note, she'd written down her med to be repeated it said 'Lovethyroxine'

@Clareylang: Parrot (Pariet)

Wendy Finney: carbellomarzipan !

Rebecca Ross: My dispenser called pregabalin 'preg balling'.