The economic, political and social-cultural influence of current immigrants is far more beneficial to the nation than our media critics make them out to be. Hispanics are fast becoming the new foundation of our countryâs economic, political and social-cultural power.
umlaut - a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound. diaeresis, dieresis. diacritic, diacritical mark - a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation. Translations.
Ã¶, or Ã¶, is a character that represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter O modified with an umlaut mark or diaeresis. In many languages, the letter Ã¶, or the O modified with what is known as an umlaut mark, is used to denote the non-close front rounded vowels [Ã¸] or [Å]. In languages without such vowels, the character is known as an O with diaeresis and denotes a syllable break, wherein its pronunciation remains an unmodified [o].