Insulin or Inch-a-lin

[bennyg70]

This Might sound really really stupid but....

Ive always called my insulin -... well, In-Su-lin.

However My Dad always called it, Inch-a-lin. I can rememebr arguing with him when I was a kid about it as it really annoyed me and it was My Insulin, so it should be called whatever I bloomin well said it was called.

It was a memory stored away for years until yesterday, someone happened to notice my Insulin, and called it Inch-a-lin. So... after a few moments of rage had gathered in my head.

Does anyone here call it Inch-a-lin? Id probably be more accepting and forgive my Dad if a diabetic did.

 

[AlisonM]

It's always pronounced In-Shoe-Lin in up here.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I'm with you Benny in-su-lin 🙂

 

[Northerner]

Sounds a bit like the problem in the US where some people call diabetes 'dia-beet-us' and upset a lot of folk! I'm in the 'in-shoe-lin' camp 🙂

 

[LeeLee]

I'm in the in-sue-lin camp, but the one that really irritates me is asthma - the Americans call it az-ma instead of ass-ma.

 

[bennyg70]

ArghhhhhH!!! Maybe my Dad wasnt been so annoying!! Yet he still was!!! In-Shoe-lin was more like the way he said it!!

Arghhhhh!

In-sue-lin! In-sue-lin!

 

[Lauras87]

i say in-su-lin

apparently at my work diabetics are know as diabetes people 😱

 

[ch1ps]

in-sul-in here

 

[Northerner]

On reflection, and having repeated it a few hundred times, I have settled on ince-you-linn 🙂

 

[Dory]

in-su-lin here (long S, short U)

cuz i is well posh, innit.

😉

 

[Dory]

yes Northy that's how i say it (trying to describe it is hard!)

 

[bennyg70]

On reflection, and having repeated it a few hundred times, I have settled on ince-you-linn 🙂

I can Live with this! Im starting to get a little more aggrevated by my Dad again now..!

 

[Northerner]

yes Northy that's how i say it (trying to describe it is hard!)

We'll all have to try saying it when we meet up at the forum meets! 🙂

 

[novorapidboi26]

I am an In-su-lin man.......

I assume everyone knows that the above way is the correct way.......and that using In-shoe-lin is the wrong way....

in-suh-lin [taken from dictionary.com]....

🙂

surely people say things as they seem them and not buy how the hear them

 

[trophywench]

I'm with Northie. ince you lin.

Been trying to think what my successive consultants have said. Current one says ince-soo-lin. He is however brown in skin-tone but close your eyes and you wouldn't guess that from his accent, or rather lack thereof, you'd just say Oh he certainly doesn't come from round here! LOL. Most of the pink and white ones have actually said in-sull-in, ISTR.

I couldn't care less meself. We all know what we mean !


What does grate on me though is when people write that word to do with DKA, you know the one! - and stick a Y in the middle!

 

[FM001]

Doesn't really matter how you pronounce the word at the end of the day, as the song goes - You Say Tomato, I Say Tomatoe''🙄

 

[sacol4940]

Erm, I think I say it in-shu-lin....

 

[PattiEvans]

Does it depend on regional accents?

I say In-su-lin. AFAIK there's no "h" in it and therefore no sh sound.

What does grate on me though is when people write that word to do with DKA, you know the one! - and stick a Y in the middle!

Aha, me too! Keytones sound like some child's musical toy! There is no K.

 

[trophywench]

No no Patti - you must remember the Keytone Cops ?

 

[gabriele]

Hi all,

I have no idea what you all talking about !
You need to explain when we meet in London .