If the heavy metal umlaut demonstrates anything, it is a simultaneous dissatisfaction with English and an inability to escape it. To adorn an English band name or album title with an umlaut reveals an ...

For Mötley Crüe, inspiration struck—as it often does—while under the influence. It was the early 1980s, and bandmates Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, and Nikki Sixx were imbibing Löwenbräu beer, a German ...

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1. The word "umlaut" comes from one of the Brothers Grimm. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. From our morning ...

When using foreign words or names in your business correspondence, it's often necessary to add two dots above a vowel to form an umlauted character. Umlauts are used in German words to change the ...

The recent announcement of the upcoming Mötley Crüe/Poison/Def Leppard tour inspired pangs of hair-metal nostalgia among a certain generation. But there’s another, perhaps more important reason to ...

Many German firms have decided that the umlaut – the dotted accent added to the letters a, o, or u – is vexing for foreigners. To make their products easier to find on search engines and pronounce on ...

They are polite, in a Scandinavian sort of way, but folks in Lindström would really like their missing umlauts back. The Swedish diacritical marks graced the Chisago County community's twin highway ...

Today, we bring you urgent and breaking news out of Minnesota, where a battle over umlauts has been — well, not raging. What is the more polite version of raging? Occurring? Happening? Gently taking ...