Re: Umlauts (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)

Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:

> Calling the two dots 'an umlaut' can be even more confusing. Only i-imlaut
> AFAIK is ever shown this way and, I believe, only German uses the symbol
> consistently to show i-umlaut.
Swedish is about as consistent as German in this regard - in both languages,
the trema typically indicates an i-umlauted vowel, but it's easy enough to find
words where the trema'd vowel isn't historically umlauted, but used to indicate
a particular pronunciation (eg the French loans in Swedish in _-ör_, from
French _-eur_).

                                                       Andreas