umlaut

[A. Maberry]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Laurence Horn wrote:

> functioning for diaeresis and for non-alternating front vowels (along
> with the random decorative non-functional double-dots of Häagen Dazs,
> Blue Öyster Cult, whatever) are called tremas; umlauts (double dots

And how can we froget the ultimate in "random decorative non-functional
double-dots", those over the "n" in Spi"nal Tap.

Allen
maberry at u.washington.edu