How do you pronounce Asperger's?

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I just amazes me that seemingly in every youtube video about asprgers a commentator thinks he or she has come up with this brand new witty idea when they write ASS burgers.

Unless it is scientifically proven that Hans Asperger, Lorna Wing and every body that has diagnosed Aspergers since then have been wrong or my diagnoses is changed by a specialist I am not going to change the name of part of my identity because of trolls. I am both Aspie and Autistic because Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum. I am a Long Islander and an American because Long Island is in America. Nobody proposes that I do not call myself a Long Islander because people make fun of it by saying LongGuylender

I have Bootyburgers (boo te bur grrs)

I pronounce it with the soft 'g'. I've thought about this before, usually after reading the 'ASS burgers' comments on you tube from the comically inept. It is such an obvious gag that it deserves nothing but a large yawn. Anyway the pronouncination thing, there are other words out there with the same final syllables, which are pronounced with soft gees.. merger, ledger, hedge, wedger? So I thougt it logical asperger's should follow suit. It's semantics really though and I know I wouldn't have even thought about this at all were it not for being a bit miffed that it sounded like an arse-meat based snack, like the other poster said, as if people on the spectrum don't have enough shite to contend with.

Ass burgers.

Thanks so much for all the replies, everyone! I think I get it now - it sounds like we kind of all have different regionally accepted pronunciations. That said, consensus does seem to imply that I should keep my hard 'g' and switch the b to a p. I'll try to pronounce it as p (perger) instead of b (burger) now. No offense meant with my original pronunciation, of course - it's just how I grew up hearing it pronounced as a kid, and I assumed that was the right way. It's going to be really hard to break the habit of pronouncing it with a b - it's been ingrained in me for over a decade! But I'm sure I'll figure it out.

Its named after Dr. Hans Asperger.

Dr. Hans Asperger himself (or his family line) was named after the word "asperger".

An 'asperger" is someone who 'aspergs"- which is to do the ritual of sprinkling holy water in a Catholic church.

In English the word for a person who aspergs is pronounced with a soft 'g' (the J sound) like 'general' , and (ironically) like the word "German". In the English speaking world you 'asperJ' in a catholic church, not 'asperG'.

However since Austrians speak German there is no soft G. So it ryhmes with "hamburgers" ( whether youre talking about the person who does the ritual, or the person with the condition).

In his native Austria, and in Germany, they would only say it with the hard G sound.

But in English either way is acceptable- soft G, or hard G. Even though it sounds wrong-as-hell to my ears you can make the case that "asperJers" is an acceptalble anglicization- because they guy its named after was himself named after an occupation that is pronounced with the J sound in English.


It probably really should be pronounced "Oss- pergers".
But on the rare occasions when I actually utter the word- I do tend to say it the wrong american way of "ASS-burgers" because I used to assume that the good doctor was named after some ancestrial village named "Asburg". But my research (a few seconds on google) lead to the right origin of his name in the word for the catholic ritual.

I wouldn't know, as I never say the word. A lot of British people pronounce it the cringing way, making the ''G'' sound like ''J''. I'd rather people say it like this: ''Azberger's''.

I have buttboogers

Why everyone, including I, tend to say 'burgers' insteads of 'pergers' I dont know.

Its hard to hear the difference, and we are all used to hearing place names that end with "burg"( which means 'town"), or 'berg' which means 'mountain'. So, atleast in my case, I used to assume the name originated as a place name- that its named after a "burg" or a "berg"- so I got in the habit of saying it that way.