+426 Its annoying how adults pronounce diabetes like 'dia-beat-is', when it should be pronounced dia-beat-ees', amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i pronounce it dia-beet-us when i quote the lifealert commercial. but irl i say dia-beet-eez lol

by Anonymous 13 years ago

haha yeah. iv fallen and i cant get up!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

life alert! diabeetus!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

it's true that when they pronounce it dia-beat-is it's annoying. but it's even worse when your parents are immigrants and pronounce it with an extra syllable. dia-beat-te-teez

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I've never heard anyone call it 'dia-beat-is'.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Bret Micheals says it like that

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's not wingardium leviosah, it's wingardium levio-SAH!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, goddamn, I hate that too! I have type 1 dia-beet-eez and people should stop calling it the ghetto way

by Anonymous 13 years ago

diabetus melitus is the official term which is why it is sometimes refferd to as diabtus

by Anonymous 13 years ago

How about I will pronounce it with a soft e until morons figure out how to spell it in a way that would require a hard e. People pronounce the word with a soft e because they know how to read. If it's Diabeetees then maybe that it is how it should be spelled.

by Anonymous 12 years ago