The umlaut diacritic can be used in giving an English "feel" to words used in advertising;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dot_(diacritic)
In umlaut, a back vowel is modified to the associated front vowel when the following syllable contains [i], [iː] or [j] (the sound of English y).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_umlaut en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_umlaut
How do you make an umlaut or accent mark when typing on the Internet? The Mac and PC deal with typing accented characters differently. Both have non-English keyboard layouts available. If you do not have access to these or know how to use them, the diacritical marks can still be produced from the US keyboard layout.
faculty.mansfield.edu/bholtman/holtman/acchars.htm
The word is often written as co-ordinates or coordinates, but this time it was written with an umlaut (if that's the English word for two dots hovering over a letter): coördinates.
www.dankarran.com/blog/2006/03/introducing-umlauts www.dankarran.com/blog/2006/03/introducing-umlauts
When a word that has letters with an umlaut is changed into English, the letters are usually written as ae, oe, or ue instead of ä, ö, or ü.
simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlaut simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlaut
to write an umlaut over. Typing umlaut Umlaut in english...
dictionary.reference.com/browse/umlaut dictionary.reference.com/browse/umlaut
umlaut mark. Dictionary terms for umlaut mark in English, English definition for umlaut mark, Thesaurus and Translations of umlaut mark to English, French,
www.babylon.com/definition/umlaut_mark/English www.babylon.com/definition/umlaut_mark/English
May 29, 2006 For the curious, some other umlauts in English which correspond to German umlauts are mouse/mice (Maus/Mäuse) and louse/lice (Laus/Läuse).
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Except among the pretentious twits at the New Yorker, who insist on "coöperation" and "naïve," English has no umlauts, cross-hatches, cedilles, or other diacriticals. That means one thing: umlaut envy. The authors of the German group blog Riesenmaschine ('Giant Machine')... What about the English plural formation:
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The words’ growing offline popularity has stoked the ire of linguists, parents and others who denounce them as part of a broader debasement of the English language. 2 Responses to “New Yorker debases English language with insane umlaut convention”...
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