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>The umlaut is not a thing for standard English. Pardon me, but that sounds a bit naïve (sorry, couldn't resist!). We seem to do it often enough to have a Wik

• DoreenMichele 5y ago
  As the intro states, most such words are loan words. And my phone doesn't prompt me with an autocorrect adding the diacritical marks if I type naive. It's becoming increasingly acceptable to just leave it off and English language keyboards tend to lack the ability to type such marks. When I try to type in French, I can copy-paste from something if I want it written correctly or make my apologies for the deficiencies of my American keyboard.
• _moof 5y ago
  That's a diaeresis, not an umlaut. Same symbol but different phenomena. An umlaut is a sound shift in a vowel to make it more like another vowel. For example in Icelandic a word like "Katla" will decline the final "a" to "u," which then causes the first "a" to become "ö". The a -> ö shift is umlaut. A diaeresis, however, marks a vowel that is pronounced separately from an adjacent vowel instead of as a diphthong.
  • frosted-flakes 5y ago
    For example, some style guides still call for cooperate to be spelt as coöperate (most notably, The New Yorker), but this has largely fallen out of fashion.
  • rags2riches 5y ago
    The letter Ä is a separate letter in Swedish and many other languages. It is not just an A with an umlaut mark or a diaeresis. The Ä in Älv is not a shifted vowel.