The pronunciation of Aspergers

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He said my guess of "case-yan" was right, though I'm still not sure how.

Anyhow Nikola IS a boy's name! Haven't you ever heard of Nikola Tesla?

Hi ya,

The pronunciation of Asperger isn't really that important, neither is it with my name. I'm not being very serious about it.

But Mage, with your beautiful avatar (did you know that A. Hepburn had a Dutch mother), you had it right when you opted for 'case-yan'; Like in best 'case' scenario (or worst-....) and Jan you'll know it. I believe it's a womans name in the States and other countries as well.

But hey.....

Best of luck to you all,
Ceesjan

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I've just seen this here on the forums last night and I like her pronunciation better: A-sper-jers.

^Her pronunciation is irritating.

Agreed.

German is my first language. I lived in southern Germany (Black Forest region) as a child and my ancesters are from the Austro-Hungarian area and south Germany. My own last name is very similar to "Asperger". The correct pronunciation of my surname rhymes with "AWS-pair-ger" with the emphasis on the first syllable and a hard "g".

The above is the correct pronunciation. Also the final "r" sound is different than the English pronunciation of "r" Instead of pushing the "r" out, the tongue is rolled back. It's often a difficult sound for native Anglophones to make.

The word is being spit into different speeds. 3 syllables, 3 speeds. Ideally, the word should have the same speed

What exactly do you mean by "the word is being spit into different speeds"?

Emphasis on a syllable has nothing to do with speed.

The word being split into three. As is common as per gers. Each section gets a different vocal input ungoverned by speed.

I watched a video, with an English accent attempt, but was determined finally to be fake by one word alone. Assassin.

I study the language in my spare time

Your response is so disjointed and spare that I'm not sure what you are trying to convey.

I have heard Asperger's pronounced a few different ways, most of them wrong. But, I have never heard it vocally pronounced "split into three". I'm not sure where you've gotten that impression from.

When it's being written that way, and split into syllables, the written splits are not to denote actual vocal stops or pauses in speed of vocalization. It is merely a phonetic type of breakdown of the word for clarity of pronunciation. When vocalized there is no split.

Uspurdjurs.

I am from England and I always pronounced it as Asper 'j' ers. But my doctor (a pshyciatrist) pronounces it like 'burger'.

I don't know what the proper way to say it is.

I pronounce it uh-SPUR-ghers, with the accent on the 2nd syllable.

It should be pronouced, as it's seen...not ass burgers.

It seems it's generally pronounced with a soft j sound in the UK and with a hard g sound in the US.

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

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.

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