Actually all similar punctuation, but we have an extra reason or three to promote the umlaut to post title worthiness.
Unfortunately my phone doesn't allow me to create characters like umlauts so you have to settle for descriptive wording. Nothing that you can't handle if your brain hasn't Ben crippled by destructive thought processes. Like gematria.
Dan had a run in with Husker Du as one of their band members bought the farm. He notes "the importance on the U" since truly proper spelling of Husker Du has umlauts above the u's. Proceeding to point out how this leads to <sigh> another 33 artificially manufactured since it's the coolest two digit number in gematria he also sees fit to PhraseShop METAL UMLAUT and do gematria of that.
Nope. Not a metal umlaut. Well, it is and it isn't.
What is an umlaut? It's the funny little •• marking over vowels in some foreign alphabets. It is not a Germanic word for omelet. The reason I bring this up is that OMELETS does not equal 33. Therefore you won't find them at the Freemason Food Court. OMELETTES, however, do equal 33 (reverse reduction). Note there are two e's vs. three e's in the alternate spellings. E for egg. Further proof of masonic versus non-masonic omeletry (real word) is TWO EGG does not equal 33, but THREE EGG does. Place your order carefully depending on how cabalistic you're feeling.*
Umlauts are diacritical marks that indicate there is something different about the letter they are paired with. In Husker Du it is shown to clue in the reader that its pronunciation is differing, like "Who-sker Doo" instead of like a Nebraska Cornhusker. Which reminds me of a lack of any updates on what happened in Nebraska during the Barcelona terrorist attacks. But that's another old story (Previous post, "Barcelona Schmarcelona...)
So Dan is right, they are umlauts. It is a rock band. But a true metal umlaut is used where it doesn't belong because it looks "cool". Noteworthy uses are Blue Oyster Cult and Motley Crue. Also, Spinal Tap famously mocks the use of the umlaut that doesn't indicate change of pronunciation by putting the umlaut over the N. Umlauts belong on vowels. Husker Du, the band, is named after the Norwegian phrase ("Do you remember?") which properly has umlauts regardless of whether it is a band. The phrase is famous enough to have made it to a memory game. The box art has - over the u's in place of ••, probably because of some childhood trauma related to Morse code, but still ...acknowledges change in pronunciation.
Dan, the master of lack of diacritical thinking ( note: apostrophes can be used as diacritics!) has allowed his confirmation bias to PhraseShop, METAL UMLAUT, instead of UMLAUT.
There are loads of other diacritics. One that I can show, but not married to a letter is the ~. The tilde can be shown with n's to make it known that tho means the "ny" sound. Manana is said, "man-yan-a". Banana is not "ban-yan-a". And note that BANANA, like a billion other things equals 33. So if offered as an ingredient or topping on your omelette, plan your breakfast order accordingly.
Most common diacritics English speakers use come from foreign languages. Supposedly, "they" are working on "decoding" other languages. Which is surprising that it's taking so long. They always ignore the mismatches and using every other language makes more matches. Some Hebrew has been done. Sort of. By translating English into Hebrew. So it's really just English. Any attempt to translate a "n~" vs. "n" is a mystery. And what to do with the Cyrillic alphabet? I recommend creating a synthetic alphabet called the acrylic alphabet that avoids the diacritical marks in Cyrillic. Mostly just for the synthetic pun.
Pronunciation is completely lost when words are changed into numbers. And in real language pronunciation is important, not just a way to force a numerology narrative to equal 33.
* With numbers you can use a dash over a decimal to indicate repetition. So be warned that a 60.54545454 (repeating) egg omelet would be Satanic. Plan your breakfast order accordingly.
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