How do you say "diabetes"?

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  1. How do you say 'diabetes'?

    • 22
      Diabetes
    • 36
      Diabeedees
    • 4
      Diabeetus
    • 4
      Some other way not listed

66 members have participated

Curious

It didn't let me post a poll.

A) diabeedees

B) diabeetus

C) some other way, cuz I'm a freak that way

Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

I couldn't stand the way Wilford Brimley pronounced it, so I'm very careful to enunciate it carefully. "Dye-a-beet-eez".

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At work we refer to it as "The Beetis."

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Specializes in nursing education.
Die-ya-bee-teez I say "I have Type 1 die-ya-bee-teez" I hate it when people say "dia-ya-beat-us" lol.

I hear professionals and experts in the field pronounce it both ways. I prefer to say it the first way. "die-ya-bee-teez"

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A.

The Wilford Brimley video made me laugh. Blast from the past! Anyone remember John Goodman doing a spoof of the Liberty commercials on SNL? I tried to post the link but it didn't work. Search it on YouTube.

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

This is slightly off-track but when I was in nursing school in Cambridge, Mass., we had a sweet lil' South Carolinian teacher, and it threw me off when she started talking about "Tuba-Tooze". Took me a few minutes to figure out she was talking about 2x2 gauze pads!

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Specializes in CVICU.

We had an instructor in Fundamentals pronounce it 'dia-bee-tus'. We were very entertained. I personally pronounced 'dia-bee-deez'.

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

I think I'm just going to start calling it "The Sugar"

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Have waited to see this subject here since the day I joined this site and all the time that I lurked prior! I tend to do it like those who mimic the other people in the conversation. Just a habit.

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A.

The Wilford Brimley video made me laugh. Blast from the past! Anyone remember John Goodman doing a spoof of the Liberty commercials on SNL? I tried to post the link but it didn't work. Search it on YouTube.

This one?

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Specializes in Inpatient Oncology/Public Health.
I posted a poll for you. :)

Where is the poll? I don't see it.

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My Gramma always called it Sugar Diabeetus.:) I agree that it's probably a regional thing.

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Where is the poll? I don't see it.

At the very end of the original post, right before the 'comments' section starts.

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