retep wrote:
In Austria, due to the inflection of their Germanic accent, it would be properly pronounced something a bit more like Ahz-pe-gu. The 'r' would be silent and the 'e' would sound more like what we know as a shortened soft 'u', sort of. Same applies to Hans, it'd be pronounced 'haawnce', not 'hands'. (English is sooo weird!)
Don't go overboard with that German 'a', though. Pronouncing it 'hunce' (to rhyme with 'dunce') would be close enough already. It's a slightly more open sound than the 'u' in 'dunce', but it's pronounced kind of short in both German and Dutch.
When speaking English, I actually pronounce Asperger as 'ass-pur-gur', but I'm not sure on which syllable the stress is supposed to go, so I vary between the first syllable and the second.
When speaking Dutch, I pronounce it 'us-PAIR-khur', where the 'kh' represents the Dutch 'g' (the scrapy sound that you can also find in Spanish and Hebrew).
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