How do you personally pronounce 'Asperger'?

[AGXStarseed]

This is something I'm genuinely curious about as I hear some people pronounce it (most often as an insult) as if the 'p' is a 'b' so it sounds like Ass-Burger, while in other places you're supposed to pronounce the word with a 'hard G'.

For me, I pronounce it as "A-Spur-Jer". What about you guys?

 

[Judge]

In taking German I was always taught that the consonant "g" was always pronounced as a hard g unless at the very end of a word. When it gets more interesting depending on where one hails from. Tiefdeutsch, Hochdeutsch, usw.

 

[Momo]

Me? I pronounce it just like I pronounce everything in my mutant accent, badly.

 

[Kirsty]

'A - spur - jurs' is the way I pronounce it too.

 

[Warmheart]

Hard "G." Asperg is a town in Germany.

 

[FreeDiver]

I hear both British and Aussie's pronounce it as " UA-SPER-GERS". But I think that's because it based on the Oxford Dictionary. Here in the US and Canada, we say "ASS-BERG-GERS" because we use the Webster Dictionary.

 

[xudo]

'A - spur - jurs' is the way I pronounce it too.

This is how I pronounce it too.

 

[StephF]

Ah Sper Jer

 

[AGXStarseed]

I hear both British and Aussie's pronounce it as " UA-SPER-GERS". But I think that's because it based on the Oxford Dictionary. Here in the US and Canada, we say "ASS-BERG-GERS" because we use the Webster Dictionary.

It always seemed silly to me that you pronounced it like that; for starters, the word 'Asperger' has no 'b' in it and secondly, it sounds horrible (as many of us have found out).

 

[Kisa the tea]

"A-Sper-gers"

 

[Flinty]

Because French is a great language, I say as-per-zhay.

 

[Manuheleku]

As it is spelled, as-per-jers. Sometimes I prefer as-pear-jers, pear as in the fruit.

 

[FreeDiver]

It always seemed silly to me that you pronounced it like that; for starters, the word 'Asperger' has no 'b' in it and secondly, it sounds horrible (as many of us have found out).

I guess here in America, They want to believe that we have the ability to defecate hamburger from our anuses. Looks like McDonald's is trying to save a few million in beef costs.

 

[Alaska]

I do not like telling anyone that I have anything involving meat ground from the posterior portion of a donkey. There is no "B" in the spelling of Aspergers. I say it asp er gers.

One of my cats changed his name by simply refusing to answer to anything besides his choice of name. I think we can learn from him.

 

[Divrom]

I always pronounced it:

Asp-perjure

But at some point I will have to concede that it should be a hard g (as in gold). So, then I will start highlighting the second syllable and pronounce it:

A-Spur-gers.

Hopefully that will avoid the insulting South Park error and avoid the B sound.

 

[Nitro]

Asp-urgers like I would say a$$burgers

 

[Jet Weiss]

As-per-gers, with a hard G, I don't know where the "burgers" pronunciation came from... I think it is mainly a USA thing though. The majority of people I know IRL pronounce it "a$$-burgers."

 

[Momo]

As-per-gers, with a hard G, I don't know where the "burgers" pronunciation came from... I think it is mainly a USA thing though. The majority of people I know IRL pronounce it "a$$-burgers."

Well, I personally don't know if I like the ass-burgers version

 

[Jet Weiss]

Well, I personally don't know if I like the ass-burgers version

 

[Momo]

My huge-ass approves