it's Alzheimer's, not All-timers...

[stevenpensacola]

I get so tired of hearing folks pronounce Alzheimer's as All-Timers...

I guess this pronunciation was cute the first ten-thousand times someone said it this way...

...and I think some honestly think it's called All-Timers...

 

[NY Disney fan]

I hear people say "Old Timers".

 

[lovesmurfs]

I haven't heard All-Timers, but OLD-Timers.

 

[snapppyd]

I've never heard that before

 

[Scurvy]

I've heard both All-Timers and Old-Timers and I hate them both. I know that some people really do believe it's actually called "All-Timers" because I had someone correct me when I called it Alzheimer's. They seriously argued with me about it because they thought I was somehow mispronouncing All-Timers. It took forever to convince them that "Alzheimer's" is a real word and even after all that they still call it All-Timers.

 

[FireDancer]

I know what it is supposed to be but sometimes I just forget. <rimshot>

 

[DWGal210]

Oh that bugs me too.

Maybe it was cute the first time someone said it 50 yrs ago but now it's ridiculous.

 

[RadioNate]

My dad just mispronounces it that way. He isn't trying to 'joke' about the word. He just will not say Alzheimer's properly no matter how many times he is corrected.

He also mis-pronounces counselor.

I try to ignore it rather than constantly be annoyed.

 

[BunsenH]

I'm too worried about my enlarged prostrate to care about pronunciation.

 

[Angelhalo]

I have honestly never heard a single person call it All-Timers. I have heard people jokingly say they have Old-Timers when they have forgotten something, but I've never heard anyone mispronounce the real word.

 

[jrmasm]

My dad says he has half-timers.

 

[stevenpensacola]

now that you mention it, I've heard it both ways...here in the south, it's sometimes hard to tell.

either way...it grates on my nerve. Glad to see I'm not the only one.

 

[NCRedding]

My mother calls it "all-timers" but the way she butchers the pronunciation of tons of other words, I'm actually grateful it isn't worse than that.

 

[pigletgirl]

Hmm -- that's a new one to me!

 

[shortbun]

I get so tired of hearing folks pronounce Alzheimer's as All-Timers...

I guess this pronunciation was cute the first ten-thousand times someone said it this way...

...and I think some honestly think it's called All-Timers...

I think you are right and it bugs me whenever I hear people get stuff like this soooo wrong. It makes me question their intelligence and then I feel bad about doing that but....sheeesh!

 

[dawnandnala]

I have honestly never heard a single person call it All-Timers. I have heard people jokingly say they have Old-Timers when they have forgotten something, but I've never heard anyone mispronounce the real word.

Ditto for me!!

 

[MIGrandma]

My Mom says Alz-timers. I just let it go in one ear and out the other.

My Dad had it and she was his care giver for years, so she can pronounce it any way she wants to.

 

[ElizabethB]

I couldn't care less what people call it. I only wish they would find a cure.

 

[handinpocket]

My Mom says Alz-timers. I just let it go in one ear and out the other.

My Dad had it and she was his care giver for years, so she can pronounce it any way she wants to.

A-freakin' men!!! I have never seen anyone that did pronounce it that way, doing so to be "cute".

 

[furb & dez]

Technically, the German pronunciation is "all-ts-heim-ers".

The "z" in German is a "ts" or "tz" sound.