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Example sentences for: umlauts

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News services that drop umlauts might deserve some sympathy; given the isolation of North Americans, the assumption is easily made here that the umlaut is an extraneous character that can be dropped—as accents in French often are when French words are transcribed into English—without doing bodily harm to the word in question.
Diacritical marks can be broken down into two types: accents, which affect, roughly speaking, pronunciation only; and umlauts, which affect spelling as well as pronunciation.
Umlauts are not simply accents, however: they are fundamental to the spelling of a word and should always be transcribed as ae/oe/ue (or aa in the case of the Scandinavian a) in character sets that do not provide umlauts.
However, dropping umlauts is less forgivable than dropping accents, because accents describe pronunciation, and anyone who is familiar with the word will know how it is supposed to be pronounced, regardless of the accent.
The Scandinavian languages also have characters similar to the German umlauts: besides the ä and ö (Swedish), Norwegian and Danish have œ (a + e as in English), Norwegian and Danish also have θ (o + e) and all three use a (a + a).