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Originally Posted by acidzebra
We call it "trema" too. We are losing the habit of using it. I blame US keyboards 
Technically an umlaut shifts the sound, the trema does not (at least in dutch), but indicates that a vowel should be pronounced apart from the letter which precedes it. So they are not the same thing. |
aha ! so it really is a tréma you have ! that's how it works in french too !
(oh, and US keyboards are the devil's tools. or possibly the actual devil.)