On 20 Feb 2003 at 10:41, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > Hello Andy. > I think that there is more list members having the same question: what is > an... an... 'umlaut'?
Either one of : ä ö ü (in German), or the diacritical mark ¨ used in forming those letters. (Also called "diaeresis", especially when it marks the letter as pronounced separately [as in Spanish or French] rather than marking a change of pronunciation [as in Swedish or German].) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
