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

[MaryAnnDVC]

I remember when I was a teenager visiting all my mom's old aunts with her before we moved away, and old Aunt Molly telling a long story about "blood clocks". Struck me so funny, I was glad I was in the other room stifling my laughter. She was a cute sweet ol' lady tho.

 

[Spoonful of Sugar]

I've never heard it mispronounced by an adult, but as a kid I thought (for many years) that it was called "old timers"

 

[minkydog]

As a nurse, I hear a lot of mispronounced words, including All-timers/Old-timers, dia-BEE-TEES, "high blood", heart "PLAPitations", "prostrate" disease, "unbiblical cord", "bomick"(vomit), and my personal favorite, the "Scum-ergency Room." I kid you not.

 

[disneychrista]

I thought it was alltimers until I actually say it in print. It is not that I was making fun of the work or the desease.

 

[kaytieeldr]

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

Dude. If you can increase your mass by laying face-down - what's to worry?

 

[skiingfast]

As a nurse, I hear a lot of mispronounced words, including All-timers/Old-timers, dia-BEE-TEES, "high blood", heart "PLAPitations", "prostrate" disease, "unbiblical cord", "bomick"(vomit), and my personal favorite, the "Scum-ergency Room." I kid you not.

This reminds me of a person I met who once ran an OB ward. The new parents couldn't read well but saw a word that they didn't reconize and when they pronounced it it sounded like a great name.

Phonetically Pajamee was the baby girls name, after they went in a store and saw a sign for Pajamas. I wonder if Pajamas changed her name?

 

[mamacatnv]

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

Amen, its a horrid disease.

I do thing the Z throws off the pronounciation and is often pronounced with a t sound

 

[KristaTX]

dia-BEE-TEES

What's wrong with that? If I say that outloud, it sounds like the right way: dī-ə-ˈbē-tēz

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

I hear people say "Old Timers".

LIKE nails on the blackboard! How about Altimers?

 

[PrincessKsMom]

My mom says Al Heimer's. Nothing funny about the disease at all, but I crack up every time she says it like she knows this guy Al Heimer and he owns the disease.

 

[DebIreland]

I've never heard it said like that! I hope it doesn't catch on here. That would drive me crazy. lol!

dia-BEE-TEES

That's the way it's said here! Maybe it's a regional thing?

 

[C.Ann]

I have honestly never heard a single person call it All-Timers.

Nor have I - although I imagine if someone had a speech impedement it might sound that way..

 

[Toad_Passenger]

Trying to figure out why it's such a big deal what people call it?

In my area people call it "Old-Timer's." It's not that we're uneducated or dumb, we all know what it's really called, but it's just something that has stuck over the years. I'm a Type I diabetic and a large number of people around here call it "sugar" or "sugar diabetes." Doesn't phase me in the least what they call it.

 

[Kellydelly]

I have never heard anyone refer to it as "All-timers" .

 

[bgirldeb]

I agree with the all-timers and old-timers grating on the nerves. Especially when someone corrects someone who pronounces it correctly.

As a nurse, I hear a lot of mispronounced words, including All-timers/Old-timers, dia-BEE-TEES, "high blood", heart "PLAPitations", "prostrate" disease, "unbiblical cord", "bomick"(vomit), and my personal favorite, the "Scum-ergency Room." I kid you not.

What's wrong with that? If I say that outloud, it sounds like the right way: dī-ə-ˈbē-tēz

That's the way it's said here! Maybe it's a regional thing?

That's the way it's said here! Maybe it's a regional thing?

I thought this was a correct pronunciation.
according to Websters, it can be pronounced both ways, but it actually lists the long "e" pronunciation first.
\ˌdī-ə-ˈbē-tēz, -ˈbē-təs\

I actually thought Wilford Brimley was pronouncing it wrong in the liberty medical commercial as BEE-TIS, but it looks like that's correct too.

 

[Scurvy]

As a nurse, I hear a lot of mispronounced words, including All-timers/Old-timers, dia-BEE-TEES, "high blood", heart "PLAPitations", "prostrate" disease, "unbiblical cord", "bomick"(vomit), and my personal favorite, the "Scum-ergency Room." I kid you not.

The bolded is actually a correct pronunciation, isn't it? How would you pronounce it?

 

[ms.yt]

I work with a lady whose father died after suffering from Alzheimer's for many years. She always calls it Alltimers. Drives me crazy, but I don't ever correct her.

 

[Twende]

I do not care so much what anyone calls it. It is the living with it that is beyond description. I do not so much mean the person who is diagnoses with it but the family and caretakers.

My mother has it. I hate this disease. It has taken my mother from me and replaced her with someone that none of us know.

Once in a more lucid moment, I asked her what it felt like on her end to be so forgetful. She laughed and said not that bad because she forgets that she can not remember! My mom had an incredible sense of humor. I think that is part of what is allowing her to maintain some piece of herself through all of this!

Also the future is frightening, as statistically at least of of her children will also develop this disease. This makes you squirm and doubt yourself every time you forget anything! What is normal aging or just forgetting something and what is a precursor of horrid things to come?

Call it anything you want. Just please find a cure for it!

 

[powellrj]

My dad has called it Henhezers for years. He is not trying to be funny, he just has a terrible time with names. He also calls my DSs dog Elmer even though the dogs name is Elwood.

The running joke in the family is you know you are a true member when you can understand what my dad is talking about. He mispronounces so many words!

 

[DebIreland]

My mom says Al Heimer's.

That's hilarious!! Al Heimers? He's good people.

My dad has called it Henhezers

Is that the female version of alzheimers?

The running joke in the family is you know you are a true member when you can understand what my dad is talking about. He mispronounces so many words!

Oh lordy, my Dad was like this but he did it deliberately to annoy my mother! He always said 'nazzys' (NAZ-EES) instead of 'nazis' and 'pisa' instead of pizza. Oh and we have a bar near us called The Chateau and he insisted on calling that 'The chat-oo'. If my mother was going out he would always shout after her 'are ya dropping in to the chat-oo for a drink?' She would literally have to bite down on her hand in frustration!! lol It drove her insane so, of course, that motivated him to continue.