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See also: Heavy Metal Umlaut
Date: Monday, 16 February 2009 05:10 (UTC)*l*
Thought it might make you LOL. It did me.
Re: See also: Heavy Metal Umlaut
Date: Monday, 16 February 2009 06:00 (UTC)Though as some comments pointed out, the same two-dot diacritic mean different things in different areas - in some, it changes the pronunciation (as in the quote; German is an example of this; often called "umlaut" in this function), while in others, it signifies that the letter is pronounced separately (as in French, or sometimes English loan-words from French such as coöperate or naïve; often called "diaeresis" (UK)/"dieresis" (US) in this function).
And then there's Hungarian, which makes a three-way distinction (well, four-way really) between o-ó-ö-ő and u-ú-ü-ű, so they have two kinds of "umlaut" :) (In German, writing the umlaut with two dots or two short lines would be equivalent in handwriting, but in Hungarian it makes a difference.)