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#1 2006-08-31 07:05:41

PositivePete
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Registered: 2006-08-29
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Old timers' disease for Alzheimer's disease

A Google searched turned up 588 incidents of this mangling of this German word, so it seems to be very common. For example, http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl … _with.html

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#2 2006-09-01 22:17:14

Tom Neely
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From: Detroit
Registered: 2006-09-01
Posts: 121

Re: Old timers' disease for Alzheimer's disease

Maybe I am not supposed to post here. I do not know the rules. I am new. Forgive me.

BUT! Ten years ago, my neighbors in rural western Michigan told me that their grandpa had Oldtimers Disease. I guess it is a matter for high-level scholarly debate whether OLDTIMERS should have an apostrophe, and just exactly where the apostrophe should go.

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#3 2006-09-01 23:40:00

patschwieterman
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Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 1680

Re: Old timers' disease for Alzheimer's disease

This is already in the Database, though I’m not entirely convinced it should be. There was a fairly recent discussion of it elsewhere on the Forum: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=657

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