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We pronounce it the way Wilford does, (di-beet-us). You can say it the way you want to, though....It is still the same disease.
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My grandparents did, and they had it. The rest of my family says it the 'Beeties' way. :)
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Diabeetus! Actually, my friends and I say it a lot just to be silly. It just sounds so funny.
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We pronounce it di-uh-bee-tees, but we understand what Wilford is saying when he says it. All five members of our family --at some point in our lives--became diabetic. My youngest sister and I when we were each four yrs. of age (I'm 51 now), our middle sister when she was 21, my mother in her forties and dad in his seventies. Another epidemic for far too many. A company called TechMedica has produced Diamalox (formerly called Diabeticine) which has successfully eliminated diabetes in 99% of Type II diabetics and 60% of Type I. Also, Dr. Denise Faustmann at Mass.Gen.Hosp. is in clinical trials stage of Type I cure.
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I checked two on-line sources: Dictionary.com and Merriam-Webster Online. Both pronunciations (-iss, -eez) are listed, so either is correct. The 'preferred' pronunciation -- the one listed first -- differs between the two sources.
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not that I can think of. I know what he is talking about but it gets on my nerves just a tiny bit to hear it pronounced..diabeetus.
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Being brought up in the 50's and 60's, it was ALWAYS pronounced dy-uh-bee-tus. Then somewhere in the late 70's and early 80's, it slowly changed to dy-uh-bee-teez. I don't know why it changed, but it did. In the dictionary, it shows both pronunciations to be correct.
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