Diabeetus


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He had a raisin in there!

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Also a Diabeetic bodyguard for Howard Hughes at one time. You learn something new everyday around this place :D

Hard to imagine, since this dude was old 50 years ago!

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I have to say, the lemmings of this country are not only mispronouncing “diabetes”, they are even misspelling how the late Mr Brimley pronounced it while making fun of him. Add an S to the word and it is clearer how to *correctly* pronounce it the old-fashioned way...diabetess. Die uh bee tess.

He pronounced it with the ESS sound, but I do understand how people think he’s saying “tuss” and not “tess”.
In the 60s and even the 70s it was mostly pronounced correctly (but “diabeetees” was a very common pronunciation too), but somewhere along the way we Yanks just swayed away to the now commonly mispronunciation. ( like library or February are mashed by us but most Brits do pronounce both Rs).

Drives me nuts when a TV reporter says “lieberry”. I stroke out when they go “in your local lieberry in Febuary.”

Anyway, it’s “die uh bee tess”. 🙂
RIP Mr. Brimley, you done well.

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