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'Mo-tuhrr-head' (see the top of the page) is how many, if not most, people in England say it. In fairness if English used umlauts Motörhead would probably be about right.There was a funny real-life incident when Motörhead was playing in Germany, and the fans chanted the bands name as it's pronounced in German.Blue Öyster Cult is the Tröpe Mäker, and possibly the Ür Exämple.

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Rodrick's band Löded Diper from Diary of a Wimpy Kid (though Greg says he probably doesn't know how to spell 'Loaded Diaper' anyway).

The problem? The first one is the intended one.

It gets even stranger: In German, it does change the pronunciation - from Al-la-gä-si-a to Al-la-ga-e-si-a.

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Christopher Paolini made a comment about how Alagaësia is supposed to be pronounced Al-ah-gay-ee-zee-uh, but when us English speakers pronounce it, we mostly drop the ë because it sounds relatively the same without it, plus it's awkward to say.

For example, he explains in one of his appendices about the shift from the elven Äenora (ayenora) to the more human Anora (ahnora). Actually, in the Ancient Language (language of the elves), which is the constructed language Christopher Paolini basically ripped off of old Norse, the diaeresis represents the elongation of the sound (e.g.The ümlaut over the e is completely superfluous and does not affect the pronunciation of the name in any way. The setting of the Inheritance Trilogy Cycle is called Alagaësia, pronounced: Ala-gay-sea-ah.In the novel Zodiac by Neal Stephenson, a local metal band is mentioned, and off-handedly dismissed by a metal fan as a 'two-umlaut band'.This usage is largely obsolete, though it is still part of the house style of The New Yorker magazine and MIT Technology Review, but survives in words like naïve which are borrowed from languages which do use diaereses to varying degrees. A diaeresis was traditionally used in vowel pairings where the second vowel is pronounced in a separate syllable, hence they are found in archaic spellings of words such as coöperate, preëmptive or Zodiäc.

Not to be confused with other uses of diaereses (also called trema), in which diacritic marks identical to umlauts can appear in some English words. Üsed very frequently in parödies in fact it's well on its way to Discredited Tropedom if it's not there already. In common Metal parlance, however, gratuitous umlauts are not pronounced, but this hasn't stopped fans of Queensrÿche asking about the Ÿ.īon̈us poin̈ẗs for Um̈lauẗs over con̈son̈an̈ẗs. If you have a non-rhotic accent, the first two sounds are changed to 'air' and 'ur'. The bands should therefore be pronounced 'Mo-tuhrr-head' and 'Blue Uhy-ster cult'. They are pronounced, respectively, as: the e in bed (like a combination of a & e) i in sir (o + e) and a sound best described as a French u, made by forming the letter o with your lips, and voicing 'eeeee' (u + e). Incidentally, the only letters in German that are umlauts are ä, ö and ü. Einstürzende Neubauten and Björk are therefore not examples of this trope. Some artists actually have an ümlaut in their band or personal names. It must be nöted that this tröpe is about the gratuitoüs usage of umlauts, not 'any usage of umlauts'. Excessive use of this trope becomes £33†. Othèr unnæcessåry diácrîtiçal mârks, Faцx Cyяillic, and gratuitøus slashed ø's alsø shów up occâsioñally in mûsic, althøugh theý're Иot as pøpular or icônic of metäl as the ümläüt. Either way, the diaeresis has becöme the text equivalent of giving ä Devil-hörned salute.ĭespite the title, the Heävy Mëtal Ümlaut is sometimes used in music genres besides metäl. Or maybe it's jüst because they look cöol, especially whën they're printed in a Göthic typeface. Maybe it's becäuse they can make änything look vaguely Germänic, and everything söunds scarier in German.