From what I learned in my home country, we pronounce this publisher as /əʃpəriːngɜːr/ which I guess it has something to do with German language.
I want to know if it's strange to say /əʃpəriːngɜːr/?
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1The commonly-heard pronunciation in the US - or at least in the NYC area - is any of /ʃpriːngɜːr/, /spriːngɜːr/, /ʃpriːngə/, /spriːngə/. The first is considered the most correct. The first vowel may shade into /ɪ/ in any case. – Jeff Zeitlin Sep 11 '17 at 18:17
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3The first two schwas are odd: they're not there in English or German. I suspect they are artifacts of the phonotactics of your native language, which probably doesn't employ these consonant clusters at word onset. – StoneyB on hiatus Sep 11 '17 at 18:21
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1How is this about learning English? – user3169 Sep 11 '17 at 22:11
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3That's it, then: Wikipedia says that the Persian language has "an optional syllable onset, consisting of one consonant", so those you hear saying /əʃpəriːngɜːr/ are trying to accommodate the /spr/ cluster to Persian. There are actually at least three publishers named Springer: Springer-Verlag, a huge presence in academic texts, and Axel Springer SE, Europe's largest digital media publisher, both in German, and Springer Publishing Co. in the US, a publisher of medical and healthcare works. – StoneyB on hiatus Sep 12 '17 at 2:36
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1@Cardinal "something to do with the German language" is what is in the original message. Later you suggest that you are talking about Farsi. What does this have to do with learning English? If you want know how to pronounce in English the name of an English publisher, I suggest that you clarify your original question. Of course, there is a German publisher named "Springer," and you may want to know how English speakers pronounce that German name. Your question as written is off topic as well as vague. – Jeff Morrow Dec 31 '18 at 18:06
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The pronunciation you have written is not how native speakers would say the word.
The common pronunciations are:
/ʃpriːngɜːr/, /spriːngɜːr/, /ʃpriːngə/, or /spriːngə/
