stackyFACTSWhen people mishear a phrase, they often invent a completely wrong version that somehow still makes perfect sense. Calling Alzheimer's disease 'old timers disease' is factually incorrect, but highly logical. These linguistic mutations spread rapidly because they sound so incredibly plausible that nobody bothers to check a dictionary.
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