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18 Dec 2009, 3:23 pm

I was writing someone about asperger's syndrome and they wrote back to me with the spelling of "asperberger's" syndrome and I don't know if that's even an acceptable alternate spelling... but it was really annoying me lol.

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18 Dec 2009, 3:27 pm

Ick! That is definitely is not acceptable and is annoying

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18 Dec 2009, 3:45 pm

Isn't it appalling how people slaughter the English language?

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18 Dec 2009, 3:49 pm

Sedaka wrote:

"asperberger's"

is not the correct spelling!! This is the correct spelling: Asperger's. Spell the "g" like a "j" or "g", depending on how you feel it should be pronounced.

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18 Dec 2009, 3:50 pm

The appellation "Asperger's" is from researcher Hans Asperger and does not have a widely-used alternate spelling. The abbreviation AS and the colloquialism "aspie" are accepted variants among this local community. "Asperberger" is simply a misspelling that appears on several websites. I could see how someone could get the impression that it is an accepted term via a Google search, though.

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18 Dec 2009, 4:01 pm

yeah for some reason people stick in a B in the most weird places of the word. I have also seen "Asperger's" quite common in misspelling it

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18 Dec 2009, 4:04 pm

Zsazsa wrote:

Isn't it appalling how people slaughter the English language?

Except it's not an English word. It's a surname.

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18 Dec 2009, 4:10 pm

I personally can't spel very well...

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18 Dec 2009, 4:32 pm

Well the thing is... I spelled it out for him first... So he was deliberately spelling it his own way and kept doing so even though all my responses had the correct spelling.

Grrr.

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18 Dec 2009, 4:43 pm

Sedaka wrote:

Well the thing is... I spelled it out for him first... So he was deliberately spelling it his own way

There must be an alternate spelling for you to use for his name too, right? :wink:

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18 Dec 2009, 4:52 pm

Those misspellings are probably from people unfamiliar with the correct spelling, and are spelling it the way it sounds. The way that name is frequently pronounced by an American English speaker will result in a "b" in a few places.

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