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19 May 2015, 2:49 pm

How/why do people misspell Asperger's "Asperger's"? The letter b is nowhere near p or e on the QWERTY, Colemak, or Dvorak keyboard layouts, so it's not like the finger can easily slip in between typing p and e.

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19 May 2015, 2:57 pm

Because they can.

Next question, please?

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19 May 2015, 3:13 pm

They're probably getting it confused with the joke of a**-burgers...

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19 May 2015, 3:31 pm

I think it's due to how it's pronounced.

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19 May 2015, 8:24 pm

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

I think it's due to how it's pronounced.

Because of how it is incorrectly pronounced in America.

English pronunciation of “Asperger's syndrome” - Cambridge Online Dictionary

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19 May 2015, 9:02 pm

I think this might be an example of hypercorrection.

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19 May 2015, 9:04 pm

I have no idea how they came up with it. Maybe it's because Berger and Berg are somewhat common names, while Perger isn't?

kamiyu910 wrote:

They're probably getting it confused with the joke of a**-burgers...

No, I don't think that's it, because I have seen "Asperger" and "Asperger" in Norwegian too, and that was before the South Park episode, so that wasn't the source of it.

ASPartOfMe wrote:

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

I think it's due to how it's pronounced.

Because of how it is incorrectly pronounced in America.

English pronunciation of “Asperger's syndrome” - Cambridge Online Dictionary

Hans Asperger was Austrian, and based on general German pronunciation, they're both pronounced wrong.

Google translate's pronunciation isn't perfect (at least not in Norwegian), but it gives you a clue
Asperger Norwegian

Asperger in German

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19 May 2015, 9:07 pm

ASPartOfMe wrote:

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

I think it's due to how it's pronounced.

Because of how it is incorrectly pronounced in America.

English pronunciation of “Asperger's syndrome” - Cambridge Online Dictionary

Those sound almost the same to me. The difference I hear is in the "g" sound, not the "asp" sound. I'm a born and bred USian and I pronounce the "g" like the UK voice did.

Also not sure why you say that it is incorrectly pronounced in America.

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19 May 2015, 10:14 pm

starkid wrote:

ASPartOfMe wrote:

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

I think it's due to how it's pronounced.

Because of how it is incorrectly pronounced in America.

English pronunciation of “Asperger's syndrome” - Cambridge Online Dictionary

Been a long time since I studied German but if I was trying to pronounce it all German-ey like it'd be something like Ah-sh-PEAR-kur (emphasis on the PEAR which is pronounced like the fruit). "kur" is not exactly correct but it's much harder than an English "g".

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20 May 2015, 1:05 am

It really annoys me when people spell it that way.

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20 May 2015, 7:33 pm

RhodyStruggle wrote:

starkid wrote:

ASPartOfMe wrote:

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

I think it's due to how it's pronounced.

Because of how it is incorrectly pronounced in America.

English pronunciation of “Asperger's syndrome” - Cambridge Online Dictionary

Because most Americans that do know what it is do pronounce it "Assburgers" . For those that do not know in the USA "ass" is a shorthand for buttocks and "burger" is shorthand for hamburger a food item popular in the United States. Because of this "ASS-BURGERS" has become a joke and is used to bully Aspies. (example "ASS-BURGERS is a fake disease used by social ret*ds as an excuse"). Because of this I have seen numerous posts from people citing the "assburgers" pronunciation and how it is used to as a reason they disassociate themselves from Asperger's.

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20 May 2015, 7:43 pm

It seems similar to the spelling issue of the former Austrian Royal House: Habsburg vs. Hapsburg. Apparently, both are correct.

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20 May 2015, 8:03 pm

The word "Burg" means "city", or "town" in German.

Your family name is commonly derived from what folks called your ancestor- which was often after the place the founder your line came from.

Germans are a common ethnic group in the USA.

So in the USA many folks have surnames than end in "burger".

The ground beef sandwich is also named after the city of Hamburg.

"Perger" is odd rarity in names.

So American speakers tend to assume that the condition is named after some guy named "Asburger" whose ancestor came from some town called "Asburg", or "Asberg".

Some folks over correct when theyre told that the first syllable is "asp" and think that the world "aspburger".

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20 May 2015, 8:07 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

So American speakers tend to assume that the condition is named after some guy named "Asburger" whose ancestor came from some town called "Asburg", or "Asberg".

I think that you are perhaps overestimating the intellect of Americans (USians, at least. I don't know about Canadians). Most people would not know that the name is Austrian, let alone that Austrian names are based on towns of origin. Some probably don't even know that Asperger's is somebody's name, lol.

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20 May 2015, 8:15 pm

beneficii wrote:

It seems similar to the spelling issue of the former Austrian Royal House: Habsburg vs. Hapsburg. Apparently, both are correct.

The analog of "Aspbergers" would be "Hapbsburg."

It's understandable to substitute "p" for "b" and vice versa; the weird thing about "Asperger's" is that people put both "p" and "b" in there.

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20 May 2015, 8:24 pm

kamiyu910 wrote:

They're probably getting it confused with the joke of a**-burgers...

This is probably right on, since the word "burger" sounds the closest to "purger" in the English language. However this says more about people's intelligence level than it does about their clumsy keyboard skills

suddenly I'm hungry. I want a burger :roll:

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