umlaut
- n a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound
- With top billing in both films, Brhl, 26, has the kind of open, innocent face and understated, slightly geeky cool that audiences warm to Tobey Maguire with an umlaut.
- Says Lahr: "Gung-gung-gung is all right so far as it goes, but it should be pronounced with an umlaut.
- Then a few days later, searching for d(umlaut)ner again, your quickly written comment was quoted in the next blog.