Q: First, I’d like to thank the BND and reporter Will Buss for finally spelling the name of Belleville’s new German restaurant and beer hall correctly last Wednesday — Hofbräuhaus — with the umlaut ...

1. The word “umlaut” comes from one of the Brothers Grimm. Jacob Grimm was not only a collector of fairy tales (along with his brother Wilhelm), but also one of the most famous linguists ever. In 1819 ...

German brands such as Dürr and Jägermeister have faced issues from customers in countries such as China, as the umlaut — the dotted accent added to the letters a, o, or u —leads to pronunciation ...

IT’S ALL A BIT AMUSING in a Minnesota sort of way. Some folks in Lindström, “America’s Little Sweden” located about 40 miles north of the Twin Cities, noted the omission of the umlaut over the letter ...

Many German firms have decided that the umlaut – the dotted accent added to the letters a, o, or u – is vexing for foreigners. To make their products easier to find on search engines and pronounce on ...

They first appeared in my life in a high school printing class, as I was looking at my friend’s silk-screen project, his band’s name etched across the top of Beethoven’s blank-white death mask. Even ...

Be it Blue Öyster Cult, Motörhead or Mötley Crüe, the Germanic umlaut is a grammatical mechanism that has been synonymous with hard rock and heavy metal for decades. While it's clear that the umlaut's ...

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