Yep, that's what I kept calling it for a few months upon learning that I had it But I though I'd share you the way I used to pronounce Asperger's

When I was 11 years old after getting officially diagnosed with Asperger's I must had misheard the therapist, doctor, or whatever and though they were calling it AustinBurger's Lol

It wasn't till the joke got old that everyone though it was adorable the way I was mispronouncing it that somebody finally taught me the correct way of pronouncing it....

Then I started saying I had ***-burgers!  I though I was being funny but they were laughing at me so I began to pronounce it with an invisible U as in Ausperger's. I know it's really pronounced as Asp-burgers but yeah....

So there you have it! Austinburger's is an old adorable way I used to pronounce Asperger's

Austin Burgers: The neurologically-different secret agent from Swinging London. He's awkward, baby, yeah!

I pronounce it asp-burjers.

I just pronounce it like it's spelled (it's a german name, so the g is "hard").  Sometimes I emphasize the puff of air after the p, since after s /p,t,k/ are de-aspirated in English (which is why we have the confusion with burgers; /b,d,g/ are never aspirated in English, but their counterparts are except after /s/)

I just say I am Autist.

When they laugh, I say it may be funny to you, to me its life.

They stop laughing

What does "aspirated" mean?

Not meaning to nitpick, but there is no "B" in Aspergers.

I default to http://www.howjsay.com for the final word on pronunciation. It doesn't seem to work on all browsers, but it definitely works on IE. Apparently there are 2 acceptable pronunciations in English, one of which has a hard "G" and one which pronounces it with a "J". I always went with the hard "G".

What? I've been mispronouncing Asperger's all this time ? Lol XD

It means that there is an extra puff of air after it, before you start saying the vowel.  I think the best way to understand what this means is to hold your hand in front of your mouth while saying "purple."  The air will come out more forcefully after the initial p- than it does through the rest of the word (although when I say it, there is another, smaller, puff after the second /p/, but not as pronounced as the first).

Unless you are a non-native speaker of English, in which case it's heads or tails what it will do.  If you listen carefully, though, you may notice that /p/ in Spanish and French sounds different from /p/ in English.  But unless you have been trained to notice the difference (i.e., by speaking a language which has two different /p/ sounds) you could easily miss it.

This post was last modified: 09-25-2012 05:28 AM by Lang.

Oh I see now, it sounds like there's two P's. Well to me anyways... Thanks

I usually pronounce it "As-per-jerz" with the first two syllables about the same length and the stress on the last syllable.
Alison

So no one else pronounces Asperger's with an invisible "u" in it ?