Aspergers or asperjers?

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There's no such thing as brain-clutter knowledge. You can make as many neural connections as you need to. I guess you could have stuff cluttering your attention or obscure older stuff in your short term memory; but none of that changes what you KNOW, once it's in long term 'storage'.

It is pronounced with a strong joo as in the word, good, not a j sound like in joke.

uve been saying it wrong.

hans aspergers.

gers like GRRRRR!

And again... why is it that people are pluralising him all the time?

With a "j" sound, "to asperge" is "To sprinkle, besprinkle." Properly, the device for flicking holy water around in a church is an aspergillum, but calling it an "asperger" might be valid. If you had two of them, they would then be "aspergers". (Or maybe that would be the people waving their aspergilliums around?)

Hans Asperger was Austrian, hence his name is pronounced with a hard "g" sound. If several of his family were to be gathered together, they would be "Aspergers".

However, when what Hans described "autistic psychopathy" was rediscovered by Lorna Wing and Uta Frith, they called it "Asperger syndrome". The DSM seems to have tried to change "syndrome" to "disorder", and I rather hope that never catches on.

Introducing the possessive "'s" makes it a little more consistent with other medical terms... hence we now tend to use "Asperger's syndrome" and (spit, spit) "Asperger's disorder".

As only one diagnosis has been named after Hans, truncating the "syndrome" is acceptable, hence the abbreviated "Asperger's".

It's one name I prefer not to use the actual language... I know how it should be said, but to use a word that no-one has heard of, they may not be aware that it's origins are not English

My mother and I pronounce the word "Ausbergers." I grew up hearing the word from her for three years so I am used to it sounding that way. "Assbergers" sounds too funny.

I didn't actually hear "Assbergers" till I was nearly 16 and it was out of my aspie mate and his mother.

i say asperjers...i think that's the common pronunciation in the UK at least

Aspergers. Asperjers is just people's way to avoid funny jokes.

I believe the correct pronunciation is indeed "aspergers", not "asperjers."