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.
Historically speaking, the letters {Ã¤} {Ã¶} {Ã¼} first appeared with an {e} written above the letters (which I've seen still on German signs). Over time, they simplified to two dots. Among European languages there are two kinds of dots that appear over letters. The first kind is called an umlaut which applies a sound change to the base letter. The second kind is called a diÃ¦resis which is required in languages that normally uses two letters to represent one sound, as in English naÃ¯ve or coÃ¶perate (as is still used by the New Yorker magazine), and is used not to change the letter, but to keep it pronounced separately.