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 ...

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 ...

What is it that makes umlauts so metal? It’s hard to say – is it the way they can make an O look like a tiny Satan? Is it the immediate associations with Germanic, Nordic and generally forest-strewn ...