<i>Uber (a car service) is no longer clued as a German preposition (over or above)</i><p>Perhaps because it isn&#x27;t? The latter is written with an umlaut.<p>(Note that umlauts can actually be a distinguishing factor for very different meanings, e.g., &quot;schwül&quot;-&gt;humid vs &quot;schwul&quot;-&gt;gay. In the case of &quot;uber&quot;, there is simply no such word in the German language; the preposition is &quot;über&quot;.)<p>(Note also that in cases of typed German where there is not umlaut key available, the standard way to transcribe is to insert an &quot;e&quot; after the vowel. So you would write &quot;ueber&quot; for the German preposition.)