How Is Aspergers Pronounced?

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Oh god, now we just need a swiss/austrian for the finishing touch.

Good phonetic writing litigious.

This topic starts to sound like the Eurovision Songfestival.

HALLOWW FROM HOLLAND! HERE ARE OUR POINTS:

LOL

And for starlings pronounciacion:

Twelve points, zwölf points, douce points

(not sure about the french spelling )

Zwölf Punkte, douze points.

Douce points means soft points. Ehmmm ... that's another topic

Thanks for the correct spelling. Long time since I went to school and wrote in german and french.

Ok, soft points then.

Name two of your softest points. Or more.

(What was this originally about?)

I pronounce it like this, "Ass-pur-grrrs" or "Ass-pur- gurs"

We tried to come up with what the name's roots were a long time ago on here. The best we could figure (without asking any of the surviving family) was that there's a city in Austria called Aspberg, meaning City of Aspen. We made an educated guess that Han's predecessors once upon a time lived there, and took on a variation of it for the name. An "Asperger" I believe would be equivolent to saying something like a New Yorker-- meaning someone from New York.

With time and the continual move towards laziness/smootheness in pronunciation, the "b" was probably dropped. That "b" is sort of hard to punctuate at the end of "Asp".

That was our best guess as to the roots of the name...

There actually is one place named Asperg, without the "b". It's situated in Germany, though, near Stuttgart. It's not that very far from Austria. Of course there can be a very small Austrian village with the same name, but this was the only Asperg I could find in my atlas, and it is a German atlas.

Last edited by Litigious on 30 Aug 2006, 6:31 am, edited 1 time in total.

Aspberg would actually mean mountain of Asp since berg means mountain. But good find anyway.

Well, two of my obsessions are maps and the German language, so it wasn't that hard to find.

My mother pronounces it Aus-Burgers.

I have heard people pronounces it Ass-bergers. It was even prounced that way in the Mozart and the Whale tralior.

I say 'As-per-jers' because that's how most people seem to pronounce it, even though I know it should have a hard 'g' because it's German.

I tend to switch between the g and j pronounciations on whim, because I've heard both pronounciations used equally commonly. I'm aware that the hard g is more correct, but I still tend to use both interchangeably.

Which is the hard G? Apparently you all mean it's the sound as in "jar", but the G in "good" sounds "harder" to me.
Well, which one is normally called the "hard" one?

I mean the g in good as the hard g.