From: Martin Ambuhl <mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net>
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Subject: Re: OT? Martin S (Re: gcc optimizes divisons!)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:38:21 -0400
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Richard Dawe wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> Martin Stromberg wrote:
> > While the o with dots is correct (nice one), o-umlaut isn't. It's a
> > letter in its own right in Swedish (although it is the same glyph(?):
> > ö).
> 
> I seem to remember my German teacher telling me that an umlaut and the
> symbol with two dots (whose name eludes me) were different. The two-dots
> symbol is used in Zoe on the 'e', which is a different sound in German to
> an umlaut, which should be written as two vertical lines IIRC. Are there
> any Germans in the Haus who can confirm this?

Diaeresis (/US/ dieresis) is the name of the mark used to indicate that
the vowel is sounded separately.  While rare in English, and rarer in
American English, it is common in French.  The dotted vowels in Swedish
are much closer to the umlaut meaning.  An umlaut is usually indicated
by the same symbol and indicates a vowel which has a different quality. 
Historically, the German umlaut is an abbreviated way of writing an 'e'
above the vowel, reflecting the alternative way of writing umlaut-o as
oe.

> 
> Bye,
> 
> --
> Richard Dawe
> richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com ICQ 47595498 http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/

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Martin Ambuhl	mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net

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