saying "umlaut"

[Tom Zurinskas]

Interestly "umlaut" has multiple pronunciations.

At forvo.com, enter "umlaut", click on the resulting first word (not arrow), see three pronunciations:

1  ~oomlout (where ~oo is as in "good" ~ou as in "out", spoken by topquark
2. ~oomlou' (where "t" is dropped or glottalized) spoken by threb
3. ~oomllaat  (stress second syl, with ~aa as in "Saab", spoken by Olbill.

thefreedictionary.com has
1. USA = ~uemlout (where ~ue is as in "true")
2. UK = ~uemllout (stress second syllable)

m-w.com has two pronunciations
1. firstly  ~oomlout
2. secondly  ~uemlout
(but the phonetic notation is in reverse order.  So which is really first or second?)

It's pretty rare in English to have a word start with ~oo.  Of the top 5k most popular words, none do.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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