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Just out of curiosity: why do so many people misspell 'Asperger' as 'aspberger'? It strikes me as not obvious enough to be so common, and yet here we have two sibling posts that make the same mistake.

It's not a problem, of course, I'm just curious (and secretly annoyed, but that's my problem)



Guilty - I copy and pasted the spelling. I really have a hard time with spelling of English my whole life. There is no way for my brain to make sense of it. Phonics is a myth. I got straight 4.0 in college and that included thousands of pages of papers and learning Ancient Hebrew and Classical and Koine Greek.


because no one cares about spelling any more, and because of that south park episode




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