saying "umlaut"

[Julia Achenbach]

Shouldn't it be something like this:
'Ê mlaÊ t ???

The letter "u" is short, similar to the way "u" is pronounced in "gun",
the so ~oom seems just a little bit weird to me.

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>> Interestly "umlaut" has multiple pronunciations.
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>> At forvo.com, enter "umlaut", click on the resulting first word (not
>> arrow), see three pronunciations:
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>> 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.
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>> thefreedictionary.com has
>> 1. USA = ~uemlout (where ~ue is as in "true")
>> 2. UK = ~uemllout (stress second syllable)
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>> 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.
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>> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
>> see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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