"Ass Burgers"

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My partner was listening to his usual dubstep station yesterday and I heard this song come on. I started cracking up because I'm not used to hearing anything about Asperger's outside of the ASD community. It's very amusing!

It's called "Burgertime" by Savant.

https://soundcloud.com/sectionz-records ... vant-theme

isnt the 'g' in Aspergers pronounced like a J? like 'asperjers'? always wondered

Nice, well put together original piece of music.

Its pronounced Ahhs- pergers, or Oss- pergers. Though most americans, including me, say "ASS-burgers".

But no - its a german language name. In German speaking countries they dont have words like "German" itsself( they call their country "Deutchland
") in which the G is pronounced "J".

Have NEVER heard it pronounced "assperjers".

Ass-per-jer's is the correct way to say it, because like mentioned before, it's a German term.

The person Asperger's is named after comes from Austria, which is directly to the southeast.

Neither have I.

As far as I know, in German words 'g' is never pronounced as 'j'.

So it's '-ger' as in 'girl'.

Do you speak German?

Everyone who I know pronounces it with a 'J'.

i call it hineyburgers

Not as a native language, but I've studied it for a few years.

Also, here's quite an interesting video of some common mispronunciations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc6cfJztR8A. It mentions Asperger's around 3:10.

Merriam-Webster, and Wikitionary, agree with me that its "aus-pergers" with the G as in "good".

However I did stumble upon the site 'Howdya Say That?" which gives an audio clip of a guy with an upper class British accent saying "ass-berJ-ers, OR ass-berg-ers, or in German ass- BEIR-gers (emphasizing and drawing out the verbs in that syllable)."

So that site does give both the "j" and the "G" pronounciations as options for English (but not in German).

But there are two problems with that. One: he says 'ass' instead of 'aws' for the first syllable (so that makes him suspect as an authority), and second -even if you take that site as an authority you still have to admit that the J pronounciation is a later English language corruption. It does NOT go back to the original German.

Hans Asperger probably pronounced his name with the G as in good, and not with a J sound.

An interesting aside- according the dictionary part of the World Book Encyclopedia "to asperg" is to "sprinkle" as with holy water. An "asperger" is someone who sprinkles stuff ( always assumed that the docter was descended from a person from a town called 'asburg', but apparently his ancestor was an altar boy or something like that.

I'm just interested, I have seen a few post here on this and also saw a psychologist who insisted on the "j" sound.

YES, THAT'S VERY CORRECT THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE, THEY ARE JUST A**####S

Well it's a loan word now. So its original pronunciation isn't so important. Proper names can be loan words too. After all, when was the last time you heard a native English speaker pronounce "Einstein" in the German way?

Isn't Ass Burgers just around the corner from Bob's Burgers?