what do you call the two dots over the ë ??

RB26DETT · 2004-01-09 06:29:36

?? and how would you pronounce ? and a with the two dots

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01-08-2004, 09:29 PM

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what do you call the two dots over the ë ??

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and how would you pronounce ë and a with the two dots

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01-08-2004, 09:30 PM

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I believe they're called an umlaut. Or maybe that's just what a u with two dots over it is called.

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01-08-2004, 09:36 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by MrFatbooty
I believe they're called an umlaut. Or maybe that's just what a u with two dots over it is called.

thats just the u with the two dots

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01-08-2004, 10:28 PM

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As I recall from German, the two dots are called an umlaut over any of the letters...

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01-08-2004, 10:29 PM

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In German only the a, o, u have dots over them, and the dots are called umlauts. The umlaut a sounds like "ay", the umlaut o sounds like "er" and the umlaut u sounds like "ur"

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01-08-2004, 10:45 PM

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Yeah, I meant to be more specific, "any of the letters" = any of the vowels that have them in the German alphabet...not like "Q umlaut" or something.

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