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But, it does have a diphthong, which a diphthong itself doesn’t have!

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Umlaut lacks an umlaut (both the symbol and the vowel shift), but if you write for the *New Yorker*, you *might* put the similarly-shaped dieresis in “diëresis”.

@Alice it would if it were a heavy metal band.

@Alice Maybe it does have an umlaut, but a wide one so that the dots line up with the top of the u, and we can't tell it's there.

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So many missed opportunities.

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@Alice Well, then it'd be an umläut, ümlaut or ümläut, and that'd be just silly, wouldn't it?

(umlaüt is not an umlaut, you pleb)

On the other hand, röck döts can be used in anÿ pläce.

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*has identity crisis*

@Alice Perhaps Kurt Gödel would have something to say about that

@Alice and macron has no macrons. But the Māori word for macron is tohutō which does!

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If that's the two dots over a vowel, I think it's what we call "tøddel" in Norwegian

And Ø is the Norwegian equivalent of the Swedish Ö

But sadly, the Swedish word for "tøddel" is "trema"...

However!
It's not unheard of to use Swedish vowels instead of the Norwegian ones if a computer has the wrong charset installed, so you will TOTALLY get away with spelling it as "töddel" in Norwegian! 🤗

@Alice And that hyphenated doesn't have a hyphen, or that dyslexic is so hard to spell.

@Alice if it did, it would be infinitely recursive and would open a wormhole.

@Alice ̪̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈use the ̤̤̤̤̤̤̤̤ipa ˡ̹ʰkeyb͡͡͡͡͡oard

@Alice umlauts are just decoration so you can add some if you wãnt

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Then the umlaut's umlaut would need an umlaut and that would be umlaut inception...

@Alice Such a perfect opportunity there.

Squandered.

@Alice And that abbreviation is such a long word

@Alice Ümläut