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12 Aug 2010, 6:05 pm

I pronounce it with a soft J sound. With a hard G (burger) it just sounds silly, for obvious reasons.


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12 Aug 2010, 8:16 pm

alex wrote:
i've started pronouncing it as 'au-spur-jurs'
When I first read this, I immediately thought of the spanish pronunciation of the letter 'j'.

"Au-spur-hurs". Needless to say, I kind of like the sound of that.

But I hate the hard "g" sound, (Leads to rude name "Assburgers", besides it just doesn't sound good anyways...) so I'm going to have to go with the 'j' sound.



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01 Nov 2011, 11:01 pm

Audio pronunciation:
http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=asperger's



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02 Nov 2011, 1:55 am

Yeeah. I always pronounce it "au-spur-jurs" in my head. But where I live (US), it's unfortunately pronounced like "ass-burgers". xD I usually just say Aspie to avoid it. :P



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02 Nov 2011, 8:14 am

I'm still not used to the word 'Aspie'.



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02 Nov 2011, 8:59 am

I pronounce like as instead of ass



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04 Mar 2014, 5:34 am

Forvo has a German's pronunciation of Asperger right at the bottom of the relevant page. I'm not allowed to create a direct route to that page from here as I haven't made enough posts on WrongPlanet yet.

There's also a separate page with a different German pronouncing "Hans Asperger".

Forvo is a really nice resource and if you register you can then pronounce requested words in your own language to help others.

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11 Jan 2016, 3:36 pm

I pronounce it 'high fuctioning autism'.