Phew! Good thing that I searched for this topic, for otherwise I would have asked the same question myself, meaning the "why does Sauron's Mouth speak aloud Sauron's name"-thing.
An explanation why he has forgotten his name may be, as Kalimac has said, that Sauron was speaking through him, and we can be pretty sure that if once Sauron had such a humble servant who would give up his personality for him, he would no longer care what his name was.
But I think, that he was so "old" because his body was actually dead, or would be, if Sauron had not taken control of his soul. Only a guess, but maybe right.
Then someone posted this:
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Perhaps he was given a ring to like the Nazgul. Maybe one of the dwarven rings that Sauron recovered was given to him.
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Now that is a very difficult question to answer. If he had gotten a ring, and he was human, he would have lost his body, sould and everything just like the Nazgul and would have become one of them.
But in the "Shadow of the Past" we learn that the dwarfes were a race that was not easy to subdue. of course, Sauron's plan to subdue them failed, but he must have known that they were such strong people, that's why the rings of the dwarfes must have had a greater power than the rings he gave to the Nine.
So, if the weak Black Numenorean got a dwarfen ring, he'd be a soulless Zombie far quicker than the Nine, who only got rings crafted for humans, thus being "weaker".
Thus, if he got the ring at the same time as the Nine, he would be a Nazgul quicker, thus being able to be their chief. (?)
Of course, this could be the biggest cr*p you've ever heard, but that happens when I got enough time for thinking.
Oh, and I don't really understand why he would even get a ring, if he was so humble and wanted to work for Sauron himself. As far as I know, the Nine were just greedy and wanted more power, but I don't know if they really WANTED to work for Sauron or fight for him. SO, if the Mouth.o.S. wanted it anyway, there was no need to subdue him first with a ring.