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Till I was 23? Just found out it is a different word and I have been saying " old timers" as long as I remember?
Kind of funny though, "old timers" is not far off. Of course the name of the man who discovered it, Alzeimer.
It would be like if whoever discovered Parkinson's was named "Shakunbad"
my mom made up a bunch of fake words. and my sister was almost 30 years old when people explained that all the word my mom made up are fake
I knew a kid who didn't know anything about the holocaust besides Auschwitz being a camp. He thought it was a fun summer camp kinda thing and he suggested we went there to camp out at at school.
An amusing mishearing, but twenty-three seems a little long for the mistake to have persisted.
When I was a kid, every time I heard a news report talking about "a body", I believed they were referring to a torso, and I could never understand what happened to people's arms and legs when they died. As far as I can recall, I decided that bad people chopped off the limbs of their victims after they killed them.
Many years later, I mentioned this ridiculous belief to one of my much younger sisters, and she told me she had thought the same when she was young.
I’ve heard old people call it that when speaking about someone they know who has it. Some people think that’s what it’s called still I believe.
I wonder what made you think that for 23 years, but to be honest, "oldtimers" is sort of an accurate mishearing. Most of the time only old people can get Alzheimer's.