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This article is about the American actress. For the Australian Olympic swimmer, see Rachel Harris. For similarly named people, see Rachel Harris (disambiguation).
Rachael Harris
Harris at the 2017 WonderCon
Born
Rachael Elaine Harris
(1968-01-12) January 12, 1968 (age 50)
Worthington, Ohio, US
Other names
Rachel Harris
Alma mater
Otterbein College
Occupation
Actress, comedian
Years active
1992–present
Spouse(s)
Adam Paul (m. 2003 div. 2008)
Christian Hebel (m. 2015)
Children
1
Rachael Elaine Harris (born January 12, 1968) is an American actress and comedian. She is known for her numerous television roles, such as starring as Dr. Linda Martin on Lucifer and as a guest star on TV shows such as Sister, Sister, Reno 911!, New Girl, Suits and The Good Wife.
Contents
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1 Career
1.1 Stage
1.2 Television
1.3 Feature films
1.4 Advertisements
2 Personal life
3 Filmography
4 References
5 External links
Career[edit]
Stage[edit]
Harris performed with the Los Angeles improvisational comedy troupe the Groundlings and taught for a time with the Groundlings school.[1][2]
Off-Broadway, she performed in Love, Loss, and What I Wore.[3]
Television[edit]
Harris at the April 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.
She debuted on television in a 1993 episode of SeaQuest DSV. After an appearance on Star Trek: Voyager in 1997, Harris went on to a recurring role in The WB's Sister, Sister. Other television credits include a stint as a correspondent for The Daily Show's 2002–2003 season,[2] as well as guest roles on The Sarah Silverman Program, Reno 911!, The West Wing, The Good Guys, Friends, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Monk, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and Desperate Housewives in November 2008. Harris played the supporting role of Kevyn Shecket, Kirstie Alley's personal makeup artist, on the Showtime series Fat Actress in 2005.[2] She also appears in Suits as Sheila Sazs, Louis Litt's on-and-off again love interest. She played Cooper in the ABC sitcom Notes from the Underbelly.
Harris hosted Smoking Gun TV in 2004, and has made multiple appearances on such VH1 documentaries as I Love the '80s, I Love the '90s, and Best Week Ever. On ABC's Cougar Town, she played Shanna, a woman that the network describes as being the "nemesis" of Jules.[4] Also on ABC, she made a guest appearance in the Modern Family episode "Caught in the Act" as a Amelia, a restaurateur and mother to a playmate of Lily Pritchett.
In March 2014, Harris began a new role in the very short-lived series Surviving Jack with Chris Meloni.[5] In March 2015, Harris was cast as Linda, Lucifer's therapist in the FOX television series Lucifer.[6]
Feature films[edit]
Her film credits include roles in Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, Kicking & Screaming, and Daddy Day Care.[2] In the 2009 comedy The Hangover she plays Melissa, girlfriend to Ed Helms's character Stu. She previously co-starred with Helms on The Daily Show.[7] She plays the mother of the main character in the film Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) and its two sequels.
Advertisements[edit]
Harris' TV commercial work includes ads for Dinty Moore,[1] Avis,[1][2] Expedia,[1] Quaker Oats, T-Mobile,[2] GEICO,[2] and a Super Bowl commercial for the 2010 Census.[8] She is the voice of turtle Karolyn Slowsky in the Comcast Slowskys television commercials.
Personal life[edit]
Harris was born in Worthington, Ohio. She graduated from Worthington High School in 1986 and Otterbein College in 1989, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theatre.[9]
Harris and violinist Christian Hebel eloped in early 2015 and wed in New York City. On July 19, 2016, Harris gave birth to her first child, son Henry, with Hebel. On February 8th, 2018, on Live with Kelly and Ryan (from the Bahamas), Harris announced that she and Hebel are expecting their second child.[10]
Filmography[edit]
Film
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1992 Treehouse Trolls Forest of Fun and Wonder Mama Video
1996 The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson Fornaio Waitress #2
2000 Best in Show Winky's Party Guest
2002 Showtime Teacher
2003 A Mighty Wind Steinbloom's Assistant
Daddy Day Care Co-Worker Elaine
The Haunted Mansion Ms. Coleman
2004 Starsky & Hutch Mrs. Feldman's Friend
After the Sunset June
2005 Kicking & Screaming Ann Hogan
2006 For Your Consideration Mary Pat Hooligan
2007 Matters of Life and Dating Carla
License to Wed Janine
Evan Almighty Ark Reporter
2009 The Hangover Melissa
The Soloist Leslie Bloom
2010 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Susan Heffley
2011 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Natural Selection Linda Nominated – Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead
2012 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days Susan Heffley
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Class Clown
Wreck-It Ralph Deanna Voice
2013 Bad Words Eric Tai's Mother
2014 Lovesick Roberta
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Madeline Phelps
2015 Barely Lethal Mrs. Larson
Freaks of Nature Mrs. Mosely
2016 Brother Nature Aunt Pam
Television
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1993 SeaQuest DSV Rose 1 episode
1997 Star Trek: Voyager Martis Episode: "Before and After"
1998 Sister, Sister Simone 5 episodes
1999 Serial Experiments Lain Female Knight Voice: English version
2000 The Amanda Show N/A 1 episode
Two Guys and a Girl Pregnant Damsel 1 episode
2001 Grosse Pointe Reporter 1 episode
Three Sisters Sal 1 episode
2002 Judging Amy Alumni Volunteer #2 1 episode
Friends Julie Episode #8.23: "The One Where Rachel Has a Baby (Part 1)"
2003 Frasier Erin Episode #11.09: "Guns N' Neuroses"
2003–2009 Reno 911! Debbie Dangle-Frost, Claire the Madam 6 episodes
2004 Curb Your Enthusiasm Joanne 2 episodes
According to Jim Mindy 1 episode
The West Wing Corrine McKenna Episode: "The Hubbert Peak"
2005 Fat Actress Kevyn Shecket 7 episodes
Monk Alice Westergren 1 episode
Committed Ruby 1 episode
8 Simple Rules Margaret Brandenbauerbern 1 episode
2006 Reno 911! Debbie Dangle 3 episodes
2007 The New Adventures Of Old Christine Claire 1 episode
Notes from the Underbelly Cooper Main cast
Matters of Life and Dating Carla Movie
2007–2008 The Sarah Silverman Program School Teacher 2 episodes
2008 Desperate Housewives Sandra Birch Episode: "City on Fire"
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Megan 1 episode
Pushing Daisies Georgeann Heaps 1 episode
Suburban Shootout Natalie Davenport N/A
Hollywood Residential Rachael Voice, 3 episodes
Frisky Dingo A.L.E.X. 2 episodes
Emily's Reasons Why Not Lila Cox-Weiner 1 episode
2008–2009 Worst Week Julie 2 episodes
2008–2010 The Life & Times of Tim Adam's Date Voice, 3 episodes
2009 Cougar Town Shanna 1 episode
True Jackson, VP Kitty Monreaux 1 episode
In the Motherhood Blair 5 episodes
2010 My Boys Marcia 3 episodes
Glenn Martin DDS Melissa the Wedding Planner Voice, 1 episode
Childrens Hospital Mrs. Throman 1 episode
The Good Guys Cynthia Savage 1 episode
Party Down Marguerite Tayler 1 episode
Gary Unmarried Rachael 1 episode
2011 Modern Family Amelia Episode: "Caught in the Act"
Archer Rona Thorne 1 episode
$h*! My Dad Says Soledad Cho 1 episode
2012 New Girl Tanya Lamontagne 4 episodes
Happy Endings Suzanne Episode "Sabado Free-Gante"
2013 Newsreaders Wendy Hayflack 1 episode
The Office Rachael 1 episode
2012–present Suits Sheila Sazs 12 episodes
2014 Surviving Jack Joanne Dunlevy Series regular
Maron Herself 1 episode
Bad Judge Dana McCoy 1 episode
2015 The Good Wife Franny Zissis 1 episode
RuPaul's Drag Race Herself/Judge 1 episode
2016–present Lucifer Dr. Linda Martin Main cast
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d Alper, Aaron (March 2005). "Rachael Harris Sounds Off". Tampa Bay Times. AaronAlper.com.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g "Rachael Harris: Celebrity: Biography". TVGuide.com. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
Jump up ^ Harris, Malcolm (2010-07-20). "Now Playing: "Love, Loss and What I Wore"". One Dress Project. Archived from the original on 2012-03-27. Retrieved 2011-07-16.
Jump up ^ O'Connor, Mickey. "Rachael Harris Signs On to Cougar Town". TVGuide.com.
Jump up ^ Rodman, Sarah (2014-03-26). "In 'Surviving Jack,' Meloni slips comfortably into comedy". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
Jump up ^ Yohannes, Alamin (March 14, 2015). "D.B. Woodside And Rachael Harris Board 'Lucifer'". DCtvuniverse.com.
Jump up ^ "lonokenews.net – Archives". Lonokedemocrat.com. Archived from the original on 2012-06-30. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
Jump up ^ "Census 2010 – Ed Begley Jr". Spike.com. 2010-02-07. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
Jump up ^ "Rachael Harris Biography". Tvguide.com. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
Jump up ^ Lucifer star Rachael Harris, 48, welcomes son Henry with violinist husband Christian Hebel
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rachael Harris.
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Diaeresis (diacritic)
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Diaeresis
Diacritics in Latin & Greek
accent
acute( ´ )
double acute( ˝ )
grave( ` )
double grave( ̏ )
breve( ˘ )
inverted breve( ̑ )
caron, háček( ˇ )
cedilla( ¸ )
circumflex( ˆ )
diaeresis, umlaut( ¨ )
dot( · )
hook, hook above( ̡ ̢ ̉ )
horn( ̛ )
iota subscript( ͅ )
macron( ¯ )
ogonek, nosinė( ˛ )
perispomene( ͂ )
ring( ˚, ˳ )
rough breathing( ῾ )
smooth breathing( ᾿ )
Marks sometimes used as diacritics
apostrophe( ’ )
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colon( : )
comma( , )
period( . )
hyphen( ˗ )
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The diaeresis (UK: /daɪˈɪrɪsɪs/[citation needed], US: /daɪˈɛrɪsɪs/ dy-ERR-i-sis; plural: diaereses), also spelled diæresis or dieresis and also known as the tréma (also: trema) or the umlaut, is a diacritical mark that consists of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter, usually a vowel. When that letter is an i or a j, the diacritic replaces the tittle: ï.[1]
The diaeresis and the umlaut are diacritics marking two distinct phonological phenomena. The diaeresis represents the phenomenon also known as diaeresis or hiatus in which a vowel letter is not pronounced as part of a digraph or diphthong. The umlaut (/ˈʊmlaʊt/ UUM-lowt), in contrast, indicates a sound shift. These two diacritics originated separately; the diaeresis is considerably older. Nevertheless, in modern computer systems using Unicode, the umlaut and diaeresis diacritics are identical, e.g. U+00E4 ä LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS (HTML ä · ä) represents both a-umlaut and a-diaeresis.
The same symbol is also used as a diacritic in other cases, distinct from both diaeresis and umlaut. For example, in Albanian and Tagalog ë represents a schwa.
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1 Names
2 Diaeresis
2.1 History
2.1.1 Greek alphabet
2.1.2 Latin alphabet
2.2 Hiatus
2.3 Non-silent vowels
2.4 French
2.5 English
3 Umlaut
3.1 History
3.2 Printing conventions in German
3.3 Borrowing of German umlaut notation
3.4 Use of the umlaut for special effect
4 Other uses
4.1 Vowels
4.2 Consonants
5 Computer usage
5.1 Keyboard input
5.2 On-screen keyboards
5.2.1 Windows
5.2.2 iOS
5.2.3 Dedicated keys
5.2.4 Other scripts
5.3 Character encodings
5.4 HTML
5.5 TeX and LaTeX
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Names[edit]
The word diaeresis is from Greek diaíresis (διαίρεσις), meaning "division", "separation", or "distinction".[2]
The word trema (plural: tremas or tremata), used in French linguistics and also classical scholarship, is from the Greek trēma (τρῆμα) and means a "perforation", "orifice", or "pip" (as on dice),[3] thus describing the form of the diacritic rather than its function.
Umlaut is the German name of both the Germanic umlaut, a sound-law also known as i-mutation, and the corresponding diacritic.
Diaeresis[edit]
The diaeresis indicates that two adjoining letters that would normally form a digraph and be pronounced as one are instead to be read as separate vowels in two syllables. The diaeresis indicates that a vowel should be pronounced apart from the letter that precedes it. For example, in the spelling coöperate, the diaeresis reminds the reader that the word has four syllables co-op-er-ate, not three, *coop-er-ate. In British English this usage has been considered obsolete for many years, and in US English, although it persisted for longer, it is now considered archaic as well.[4] Nevertheless, it is still used by the US magazine The New Yorker. In English language texts it is perhaps most familiar in the spellings naïve, Noël, and Chloë, and is also used officially in the name of the island Teän. Languages such as Dutch, Catalan, French, Galician and Spanish make regular use of the diaeresis.
History[edit]
Greek alphabet[edit]
Two dots, called a trema, were used in the Hellenistic period on the letters ι and υ, most often at the beginning of a word, as in ϊδων, ϋιος, and ϋβριν, to separate them from a preceding vowel, as writing was scriptio continua, where spacing was not yet used as a word divider. (See Coptic alphabet, for example.) However, it was also used to indicate that a vowel formed its own syllable (in phonological hiatus), as in ηϋ and Αϊδι.[5][6]
In Modern Greek, αϊ and οϊ represent the diphthongs /ai̯/ and /oi̯/, and εϊ the disyllabic sequence /e.i/, whereas αι, οι, and ει transcribe the simple vowels /e/, /i/, and /i/. The diacritic can be the only one on a vowel, as in ακαδημαϊκός akadēmaïkos "academic", or in combination with an acute accent, as in πρωτεΐνη prōteïnē "protein".
Latin alphabet[edit]
The diaeresis was borrowed[year needed] for this purpose in several languages of western and southern Europe, among them Occitan, Catalan, French, Dutch, Welsh, and (rarely) English.
When a vowel in Greek was stressed, it did not assimilate to a preceding vowel but remained as a separate syllable. Such vowels were marked with an accent such as the acute, a tradition that has also been adopted by other languages, such as Spanish and Portuguese. For example, the Portuguese words saia [ˈsajɐ] "skirt" and the imperfect saía [saˈi.ɐ] "I used to leave" differ in that the sequence /ai/ forms a diphthong in the former (synaeresis), but is a hiatus in the latter (diaeresis).
Hiatus[edit]
In Catalan, the digraphs ai, ei, oi, au, eu, and iu are normally read as diphthongs. To indicate exceptions to this rule (hiatus), a diaeresis mark is placed on the second vowel: without this the words raïm [rəˈim] ("grape") and diürn [diˈurn] ("diurnal") would be read *[ˈrajm] and *[ˈdiwrn], respectively. The Occitan use of diaeresis is very similar to that of Catalan: ai, ei, oi, au, eu, ou are diphthongs consisting of one syllable but aï, eï, oï, aü, eü, oü are groups consisting of two distinct syllables.
In Welsh, where the diaeresis appears, it is usually on the stressed vowel, and this is most often on the first of the two adjacent vowels; a typical example is copïo [kɔ.ˈpi.ɔ] (to copy), cf. mopio [ˈmɔ.pjɔ] (to mop). It is also used on the first of two vowels that would otherwise form a diphthong (crëir [ˈkreː.ɪr] rather than creir [ˈkrəi̯r]) and on the first of three vowels to separate it from a following diphthong: crëwyd is pronounced [ˈkreː.ʊi̯d] rather than [ˈkrɛu̯.ɨd].
In Dutch, spellings such as coëfficiënt are necessary because the digraphs oe and ie normally represent the simple vowels [u] and [i], respectively. However, hyphenation is now preferred for compound words so that zeeëend (sea duck) is now spelled zee-eend.[7]
In German, diaeresis occurs in a few proper names, such as Ferdinand Piëch and Bernhard Hoëcker.
In Galician, diaeresis is employed to indicate hiatus in the first and second persons of the plural of the imperfect tense of verbs ended in -aer, -oer, -aír and -oír (saïamos, caïades). This stems from the fact that an unstressed -i- is left between vowels, but constituting its own syllable, ending with a form identical in writing but different in pronunciation with those of the Present subjunctive, as those have said i forming a diphthong with the following a.
Non-silent vowels[edit]
As a further extension, some languages began to use a diaeresis whenever a vowel letter was to be pronounced separately. This included vowels that would otherwise form digraphs with consonants or simply be silent.
In the orthographies of Spanish, Catalan, French, Galician, and Occitan, the graphemes gu and qu normally represent a single sound, [ɡ] or [k], before the front vowels e and i (or before nearly all vowels in Occitan). In the few exceptions where the u is pronounced, a diaeresis is added to it. Before the 1990 Orthographic Agreement, a diaeresis ("trema") was also used in (mainly Brazilian) Portuguese in this manner, in words like sangüíneo [sɐ̃ˈɡwiniu] “sanguineous”; after the implementation of the Orthographic Agreement, it was abolished altogether from all Portuguese words. In French, in the aforementioned cases the diaeresis is usually written over the following vowel.
Examples:
Spanish pingüino [piŋˈɡwino] "penguin"
Catalan aigües [ˈajɣwəs] "waters", qüestió [kwəstiˈo] "matter, question"
Occitan lingüista [liŋˈɡwistɔ] "linguist", aqüatic [aˈkwatik] "aquatic"
French aiguë or aigüe [eɡy] "acute (fem.)" (note that the e is silent; without the diacritic, both it and the u would be silent)
Galician mingüei [miŋˈɡwei] "I shrank"
Luxembourgish chance [ˈʃãːs] "opportunity", chancë [ˈʃãːsə] (before a consonant) "opportunities"
English Brontë /ˈbrɒnti/ (see Brontë family)
This has been extended to Ganda, where a diaeresis separates y from n: anya [aɲa], anÿa [aɲja].
French[edit]
In French, some diphthongs that were written with pairs of vowel letters were later reduced to monophthongs, which led to an extension of the value of this diacritic. It often now indicates that the second vowel letter is to be pronounced separately from the first, rather than merge with it into a single sound. For example, the French words maïs [ma.is] and naïve [na.iv] would be pronounced *[mɛ] and *[nɛv], respectively, without the diaeresis mark, since the digraph ai is pronounced [ɛ]. The English spelling of Noël "Christmas" (French [nɔ.ɛl]) comes from this use. Ÿ occurs in French as a variant of ï in a few proper nouns, as in the name of the Parisian suburb of L'Haÿ-les-Roses [la.i le ʁoz].
The diaeresis is also used when a silent e is added to the sequence gu, to show that it is to be pronounced [ɡy] rather than as a digraph for [ɡ]. For example, when the feminine -e is added to aigu [eɡy] "sharp", the pronunciation does not change: aiguë [eɡy]. Similar is the feminine noun ciguë [siɡy] "hemlock"; compare figue [fiɡ] "fig". In the ongoing French spelling reform of 1990, this was moved to the u (aigüe, cigüe), though the earlier orthography continues to be widely used[citation needed]. (In canoë [kanɔ.e] the e is not silent, and so is not affected by the spelling reform.)
In some names, a diaeresis is used to show what used to be two vowels in hiatus, although the second vowel has since fallen silent, as in Saint-Saëns [sɛ̃sɑ̃s] and de Staël [də stal].
English[edit]
The grave accent and the diaeresis are the only diacritics native to Modern English (apart from diacritics used in loanwords, such as the acute accent, the cedilla, or the tilde). The use of both, however, is considered to be largely archaic.[8][9]
The diaeresis mark is sometimes used in English personal first and last names to indicate that two adjacent vowels should be pronounced separately, rather than as a diphthong. Examples include the given names Chloë and Zoë, which otherwise might be pronounced with a silent e. To discourage a similar mispronunciation, the mark is also used in the surname Brontë. It may be used optionally for words that do not have a morphological break at the diaeresis point, such as naïve, Boötes, and Noël. However, it is far less commonly used in words such as coöperate and reënter except in a very few publications—notably The New Yorker.[10][11][12]
Ÿ is sometimes used in transcribed Greek, where it represents the Greek letter υ (upsilon) in hiatus with α. For example, it can be seen in the transcription Artaÿctes of the Persian name Ἀρταΰκτης (Artaüktēs) at the very end of Herodotus, or the name of Mount Taÿgetus on the southern Peloponnesus peninsula, which in modern Greek is spelled Ταΰγετος.
Umlaut[edit]
Germanic umlaut is a specific historical phenomenon of vowel-fronting in German and other languages.[13] In German it causes back vowels /a/, /o/ and /u/ to shift forward in the mouth to /e/, /ø/ and /y/, respectively. In modern German orthography, the affected graphemes ⟨a⟩, ⟨o⟩ and ⟨u⟩ are written as ⟨ä⟩, ⟨ö⟩ and ⟨ü⟩, i.e. they are written with diacritical marks identical to the diaeresis mark. Therefore, in German (and in some languages influenced by German orthography), the diacritical symbol itself is sometimes called umlaut.
History[edit]
Further information: Germanic umlaut
New and old forms of umlaut
Illustration of the development of umlaut: schoen → schoͤn → schön ('beautiful'). The Sütterlin script used here is a later development, however.
German phonological umlaut was present in the Old High German period and continued to develop in Middle High German. From the Middle High German period, it was sometimes denoted in written German by adding an e to the affected vowel, either after the vowel or, in small form, above it. This can still be seen in some names, e.g. Goethe, Goebbels, Staedtler.[14]
In blackletter handwriting as used in German manuscripts of the later Middle Ages, and also in many printed texts of the early modern period, the superscript ⟨e⟩ still had a form that would be recognisable to us as an ⟨e⟩, but in manuscript writing, umlauted vowels could be indicated by two dots since the late medieval period.
In the forms of handwriting that emerged in the early modern period (of which Sütterlin is the latest and best-known example) the letter ⟨e⟩ was composed of two short vertical lines very close together, and the superscript ⟨e⟩ looked like two tiny strokes. Even from the 16th century, the handwritten convention of indicating umlaut by two dots placed above the affected vowel is also found in printed texts.
In modern handwriting, the umlaut sometimes resembles a tilde, quotation mark, dash, miniature u or other small mark.[clarification needed]
Unusual umlaut designs are sometimes also created for graphic design purposes, such as to fit an umlaut into tightly-spaced lines of text.[15] This may include umlauts placed vertically or inside the body of the letter.[16][17][18]
Printing conventions in German[edit]
When typing German, if umlaut letters are not available, it is usual to replace them with the underlying vowel followed by an ⟨e⟩. So, for example, "Schröder" becomes "Schroeder". As the pronunciation differs greatly between the normal letter and the umlaut, simply omitting the dots is incorrect. The result might often be a different word, as in schon 'already', schön 'beautiful'; or a different grammatic form, e.g. Mutter 'mother', Mütter 'mothers'.
Despite this, the umlauted letters are not considered as separate letters of the alphabet proper in German, in contrast to other Germanic languages.
When alphabetically sorting German words, the umlaut is usually not distinguished from the underlying vowel, although if two words differ only by an umlaut, the umlauted one comes second, for example:
Schon
Schön
Schonen
There is a second system in limited use, mostly for sorting names (colloquially called "telephone directory sorting")[citation needed], which treats ü like ue, and so on.
Schön
Schon
Schonen
Austrian telephone directories insert ö after oz.
Schon
Schonen
Schön
In Switzerland, capital umlauts are sometimes printed as digraphs, in other words, ⟨Ae⟩, ⟨Oe⟩, ⟨Ue⟩, instead of ⟨Ä⟩, ⟨Ö⟩, ⟨Ü⟩ (see German alphabet for an elaboration.) This is because the Swiss typewriter keyboard contains the French accents on the same keys as the umlauts (selected by Shift). To write capital umlauts the ¨-key is pressed followed by the capital letter to which the umlaut should apply.
Borrowing of German umlaut notation[edit]
Some languages have borrowed some of the forms of the German letters Ä, Ö, or Ü, including Azerbaijani, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Karelian, some of the Sami languages, Slovak, Swedish, and Turkish. This indicates sounds similar to the corresponding umlauted letters in German. In spoken Scandinavian languages the grammatical umlaut change is used (singular to plural, derivations etc.) but the character used differs between languages. In Finnish, a/ä and o/ö change systematically in suffixes according to the rules of vowel harmony. In Hungarian, where long vowels are indicated with an acute accent, the umlaut notation has been expanded with a version of the umlaut which looks like double acute accents, indicating a blend of umlaut and acute. Contrast: short ö; long ő. The Estonian alphabet has borrowed ⟨ä⟩, ⟨ö⟩, and ⟨ü⟩ from German; Swedish and Finnish have ⟨ä⟩ and ⟨ö⟩; and Slovak has ⟨ä⟩. In Estonian, Swedish, Finnish, and Sami ⟨ä⟩ and ⟨ö⟩ denote [æ] and [ø], respectively. Hungarian has ⟨ö⟩ and ⟨ü⟩. The Slovak language uses the letter ⟨ä⟩ to denote [ɛ] (or a bit archaic but still correct [æ]) – the sign is called dve bodky ("two dots"), and the full name of the letter ä is a s dvomi bodkami ("a with two dots"). In these languages, with the exception of Hungarian, the replacement rule for situations where the umlaut character is not available, is to simply use the underlying unaccented character instead. Hungarian follows the German rules and replaces ⟨ö⟩ and ⟨ü⟩ with ⟨oe⟩ and ⟨ue⟩ respectively[citation needed] – at least for telegrams and telex messages. The same rule is followed for the near-lookalikes ⟨ő⟩ and ⟨ű⟩.
In Luxembourgish (Lëtzebuergesch), the umlaut diacritic in ⟨ä⟩ and ⟨ë⟩ represents a stressed schwa. The letters ⟨ü⟩ and ⟨ö⟩ do not occur in native Luxembourgish words, but at least the former is common in words borrowed from standard German.
When Turkish switched from the Arabic to the Latin alphabet in 1928, it adopted a number of diacritics borrowed from various languages, including ⟨ü⟩ and ⟨ö⟩ from German (probably reinforced by their use in languages like Swedish, Hungarian, etc.). These Turkish graphemes represent sounds similar to their respective values in German (see Turkish alphabet).
As the borrowed diacritic has lost its relationship to Germanic i-mutation, they are in some languages considered independent graphemes, and cannot be replaced with ⟨ae⟩, ⟨oe⟩, or ⟨ue⟩ as in German. In Estonian and Finnish, for example, these latter diphthongs have independent meanings. Even some Germanic languages, such as Swedish (which does have a transformation analogous to the German umlaut, called omljud), treat them always as independent letters. In collation, this means they have their own positions in the alphabet, for example at the end ("A–Ö" or "A–Ü", not "A–Z") as in Swedish, Estonian and Finnish, which means that the dictionary order is different from German. The transformations ä → ae and ö → oe can, therefore, be considered less appropriate for these languages, although Swedish and Finnish passports use the transformation to render ö and ä (and å as aa) in the machine-readable zone. In contexts of technological limitation, e.g. in English based systems, Swedes can either be forced to omit the diacritics or use the two letter system.
When typing in Norwegian, the letters Æ and Ø might be replaced with Ä and Ö respectively if the former are not available. If ä is not available either, it is appropriate to use ae. The same goes for ö and oe. While ae has a great resemblance to the letter æ and, therefore, does not impede legibility, the digraph oe is likely to reduce the legibility of a Norwegian text. This especially applies to the digraph øy, which would be rendered in the more cryptic form oey. Also in Danish, Ö has been used in place of Ø in some older texts and to distinguish between open and closed ö-sounds and when confusion with other symbols could occur, e.g. on maps. The Danish/Norwegian Ø is like the German Ö a development of OE, to be compared with the French Œ.
Early Volapük used Fraktur a, o and u as different from Antiqua ones. Later, the Fraktur forms were replaced with umlauted vowels.
The usage of umlaut-like diacritic vowels, particularly ü, occurs in the transcription of languages that do not use the Roman alphabet, such as Chinese. For example, 女 (female) is transcribed as nǚ in proper Mandarin Chinese pinyin, while nv is sometimes used as a replacement for convenience since the letter v is not used in pinyin. Tibetan pinyin uses ä, ö, ü with approximately their German values.
The Cyrillic letters ӓ, ӧ, ӱ are used in Mari, Khanty, and other languages for approximately [æ], [ø], and [y]. These directly parallel the German umlaut ä, ö, ü. Other vowels using a double dot to modify their values in various minority languages of Russia are ӛ, ӫ, and ӹ.
Use of the umlaut for special effect[edit]
See also: Metal umlaut
The umlaut diacritic can be used in "sensational spellings" or foreign branding, for example in advertising, or for other special effects. Häagen-Dazs is an example of such usage.
Other uses[edit]
A double dot is also used as a diacritic in cases where it functions as neither a diaeresis nor an umlaut. In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), a double dot is used for a centralized vowel, a situation more similar to umlaut than to diaeresis. In other languages it is used for vowel length, nasalization, tone, and various other uses where diaeresis or umlaut was available typographically. The IPA uses a double dot below letters to indicate a breathy-voice or murmur.
Vowels[edit]
In Albanian and Kashubian, ⟨ë⟩ represents a schwa [ə].
In Aymara, a double dot is used on ⟨ä⟩ ⟨ï⟩ ⟨ü⟩ for vowel length.
In the Basque dialect of Soule, ⟨ü⟩ represents another vowel —the main phonetic characteristic of those areas—, pronounced as in French "u" or German "ü".
In Ligurian official orthography, ⟨ö⟩ is used to represent the sound [oː].
In Māori a diaeresis (e.g. Mäori) was often used on computers in the past instead of the macron to indicate long vowels, as the diaeresis was relatively easy to produce on many systems, and the macron difficult or impossible.[19][20]
In Seneca, ⟨ë⟩ ⟨ö⟩ are nasal vowels, though ⟨ä⟩ is [ɛ], as in German umlaut.
In Vurës (Vanuatu), ⟨ë⟩ and ⟨ö⟩ encode respectively [œ] and [ø].
In the Pahawh Hmong script, a double dot is used as one of several tone marks.
The double dot was used in the early Cyrillic alphabet, which was used to write Old Church Slavonic. The modern Cyrillic Belarusian and Russian alphabets include the letter yo ⟨ё⟩, although replacing it with the letter ⟨е⟩ without the diacritic is allowed in Russian unless doing so would create ambiguity. Since the 1870s, the letter yi (Ї, ї) has been used in the Ukrainian alphabet for iotated [ji]; plain і is not iotated [i]. In Udmurt, ӥ is used for uniotated [i], with и for iotated [ji].
The form ÿ is common in Dutch handwriting and also occasionally used in printed text – but is a form of the digraph "ij" rather than a modification of the letter "y".
Komi language uses ⟨Ӧ⟩ (a Cyrillic O with diaeresis) for [ə].
Consonants[edit]
Jacaltec (a Mayan language) and Malagasy are among the very few languages with a diaeresis on the letter "n"; in both, n̈ is the velar nasal [ŋ].
In Udmurt, a double dot is also used with the consonant letters ӝ [dʒ] (from ж [ʒ]), ӟ [dʑ] (from з [z] ~ [ʑ]) and ӵ [tʃ] (from ч [tɕ]).
Ḧ and ẍ are used for [ħ] and [ʁ] in the unified Kurdish alphabet. These are foreign sounds borrowed from Arabic.
Ẅ and ÿ: Ÿ is generally a vowel, but it is used as the (semi-vowel) consonant [ɰ] (a [w] without the use of the lips) in Tlingit. This sound is also found in Coast Tsimshian, where it is written ẅ.
A number of languages in Vanuatu use double dots on consonants, to represent linguolabial (or apicolabial) phonemes in their orthography. Thus Araki contrasts bilabial p [p] with linguolabial p̈ [t̼]; bilabial m [m] with linguolabial m̈ [n̼]; and bilabial v [β] with linguolabial v̈ [ð̼].
Seneca uses ⟨s̈⟩ for [ʃ]. The letter ẗ is not used in any alphabet, but is sometimes seen for tāʾ marbūṭa ة in Arabic transliteration.
Syriac uses a two dots above a letter, called Siyame, to indicate that the word should be understood as plural. For instance, ܒܝܬܐ (bayta) means 'house', while ܒܝ̈ܬܐ (bayte) means 'houses'. The sign is used especially when no vowel marks are present, which could differentiate between the two forms. Although the origin of the Siyame is different from that of the Diaeresis sign, in modern computer systems both are represented by the same Unicode character. This, however, often leads to wrong rendering of the Syriac text.
Computer usage[edit]
Character encoding generally treats the umlaut and the diaeresis as the same diacritic mark.
Keyboard input[edit]
Letters with umlaut on a German computer keyboard.
If letters with double dots are not present on the keyboard (or if they are not recognized by the operating system), there are a number of ways to input them into a computer system.
Using Microsoft Word for Windows, a letter with double dots can be produced by pressing Ctrl-Shift-:, then the letter.
Using Linux, a letter with double dots can be produced by pressing AltGr-Shift-:, then the letter
Using Mac OS or OS X, a letter with double dots can be produced by pressing ⌥ Option+U, then the letter. This works on English and other keyboards and is documented further in the supplied manuals.
X-based systems with a Compose key set in the system can usually insert characters with double dots by typing Compose, quotedbl (i.e. ") followed by the letter. Compose+⇧ Shift, letter may also work, depending on the system's set-up. However, most modern UNIX-like systems also accept the sequence Compose+⇧ Shift+U to initiate the direct input of a Unicode value. Thus, typing Compose+⇧ Shift+U, 00F6, finishing with Space or ↵ Enter, will insert ö into the document.
Microsoft Windows allows users to set their US layout keyboard language to International, which allows for something similar, by turning keys (rather characters) into dead keys. If the user enters ", nothing will appear on screen, until the user types another character, after which the characters will be merged if possible, or added independently at once if not.
On several operating systems, double-dotted letters can be written by entering Alt codes. On Microsoft Windows keyboard layouts that do not have double dotted characters, one can especially use Windows Alt keycodes. Double dots are then entered by pressing the left Alt key, and entering the full decimal value of the character's position in the Windows code page on the numeric keypad, provided that the compatible code page is used as a system code page. One can also use numbers from Code page 850; these lack a leading 0. On a Swedish/Finnish keyboard both letters å, ä and ö are present, as well as ¨ to combine with any vowel character, in the same way as ´`^ and ~ accentuation signs.
Character
Windows Code Page Code
CP850 Code
ä Alt+0228 Alt+132
ë Alt+0235 Alt+137
ï Alt+0239 Alt+139
ö Alt+0246 Alt+148
ü Alt+0252 Alt+129
ÿ Alt+0255 Alt+152
Ä Alt+0196 Alt+142
Ë Alt+0203 Alt+211
Ï Alt+0207, Alt+02255 Alt+651
Ö Alt+0214 Alt+153
Ü Alt+0220 Alt+154
Ÿ Alt+0159 N/A
On-screen keyboards[edit]
The early 21st century has seen noticeable growth in stylus- and touch-operated interfaces, making the use of on-screen keyboards operated by pointing devices (mouse, stylus, or finger) more important. These "soft" keyboards may replicate the modifier keys found on hardware keyboards, but they may also employ other means of selecting options from a base key, such as right-click or press-and-hold. Soft keyboards may also have multiple contexts, such as letter, numeric, and symbol.
Windows[edit]
In Windows 8, the standard (but not extended) touch US keyboard allows entry of ä ë ï ö ü ẅ ÿ by holding the corresponding un-accented keys, and of spacing ¨ by holding ~ or ^. Upper-case equivalents are accessed with the Shift key, as would be expected.
iOS[edit]
iOS provides accented letters through press-and-hold on most European Latin-script keyboards, including English. Some keyboard layouts feature combining-accent keys that can add accents to any appropriate letter.
Dedicated keys[edit]
The German keyboard has dedicated keys for ü ö ä. Scandinavian and Turkish keyboards have dedicated keys for their respective language-specific letters, including ö for Swedish, Finnish, and Icelandic, and both ö and ü for Turkish.
Other scripts[edit]
For non-Latin scripts, Greek and Russian use press-and-hold for double-dot diacritics on only a few characters. The Greek keyboard has dialytica and dialytica–tonos variants for upsilon and iota (ϋ ΰ ϊ ΐ), but not for ε ο α η ω, following modern monotonic usage. Russian keyboards feature separate keys for е and ё.
Character encodings[edit]
The ISO 8859-1 character encoding includes the letters ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, and their respective capital forms, as well as ÿ in lower case only, with Ÿ added in the revised edition ISO 8859-15 and Windows-1252.
Unicode includes all of ISO-8859 and also provides the double dot as U+00A8 ¨ Diaeresis and as U+0308 ◌̈ Combining diaeresis. Mainly for compatibility with older character encodings, dozens of codepoints with letters with double dots are available.
Both the combining character U+0308 and the precombined codepoints can be used as umlaut or diaeresis.
Sometimes, there's a need to distinguish between the umlaut sign and the diaeresis sign. ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 recommends the following for these cases:
To represent the umlaut use Combining Diaeresis (U+0308)
To represent the diaeresis use Combining Grapheme Joiner (CGJ, U+034F) + Combining Diaeresis (U+0308)
As of version 3.2.0, Unicode also provides U+0364 ◌ͤ COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E which can produce the older umlaut typography.
Unicode provides a combining double dot below as U+0324 ◌̤ Combining diaeresis below.
HTML[edit]
In HTML, vowels with double dots can be entered with an entity reference of the form &?uml;, where ? can be any of a, e, i, o, u, y or their majuscule counterparts. With the exception of the uppercase Ÿ, these characters are also available in all of the ISO 8859 character sets and thus have the same codepoints in ISO-8859-1 (-2, -3, -4, -9, -10, -13, -14, -15, -16) and Unicode. The uppercase Ÿ is available in ISO 8859-15 and Unicode, and Unicode provides a number of other letters with double dots as well.
Umlauts
Character
Replacement
HTML
Unicode
Ä
ä A or Ae
a or ae Ä
ä U+00C4
U+00E4
Ö
ö O or Oe
o or oe Ö
ö U+00D6
U+00F6
Ü
ü U or Ue
u or ue Ü
ü U+00DC
U+00FC
Other double dots
Character
HTML
Unicode
Ë
ë Ë
ë U+00CB
U+00EB
Ḧ
ḧ U+1E26
U+1E27
Ï
ï Ï
ï U+00CF
U+00EF
ẗ U+1E97
Ṳ
ṳ U+1E72
U+1E73
Ẅ
ẅ U+1E84
U+1E85
Ẍ
ẍ U+1E8C
U+1E8D
Ÿ
ÿ Ÿ
ÿ U+0178
U+00FF
Note: when replacing umlaut characters with plain ASCII, use ae, oe, etc. for German language, and the simple character replacements for all other languages.
TeX and LaTeX[edit]
TeX (and its derivatives, most notably LaTeX) also allows double dots to be placed over letters. The standard way is to use the control sequence \" followed by the relevant letter, e.g. \"u. It is good practice to set the sequence off with curly braces: {\"u} or \"{u}.
TeX's "German" package can be used: it adds the " control sequence (without the backslash) to produce the Umlaut. However, this can cause conflicts if the main language of the document is not German. Since the integration of Unicode through the development of XeTeX and XeLaTeX, it is also possible to input the Unicode character directly into the document, using one of the recognized methods such as Compose key or direct Unicode input.
TeX's traditional control sequences can still be used and will produce the same output (in very early versions of TeX these sequences would produce double dots that were too far above the letter's body).
All these methods can be used with all available font variations (italic, bold etc.).
See also[edit]
Dot (diacritic)
Metal umlaut
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References[edit]
Jump up ^ The Unicode Standard v 5.0. San Francisco, etc.: Addison-Wesley. 1991–2007. p. 228. ISBN 0-321-48091-0.
Jump up ^ διαίρεσις. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
Jump up ^ τρῆμα. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
Jump up ^ Harry Shaw, 1964. Punctuate It Right. p. 43, Accent Marks: Dieresis: "...it is much less used than formerly, having been largely replaced by the hyphen..."
Jump up ^ William Johnson, 2004. Bookrolls and scribes in Oxyrhynchus, p 343; examples on pp 259, 315, 334, etc.
Jump up ^ Roger Bagnall, 2009:262. The Oxford handbook of papyrology
Jump up ^ "woordenlijst". woordenlijst.org.
Jump up ^ Burchfield, R.W. (1996). Fowlers's Modern English Usage (3 ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 210. ISBN 0-19-869126-2.
Jump up ^ On Diacritics and Archaïsm. Flakery.org, June 18, 2006.
Jump up ^ diaeresis: December 9, 1998. The Mavens' Word of the Day. Random House.
Jump up ^ Umlauts in English?. General Questions. Straight Dope Message Board.
Jump up ^ Mary Norris (2012-04-26). "The Curse of the Diaeresis". The New Yorker. The special tool we use here at The New Yorker for punching out the two dots that we then center carefully over the second vowel in such words as “naïve” and “Laocoön” will be getting a workout this year, as the Democrats coöperate to reëlect the President.
Jump up ^ The phonological phenomenon of umlaut occurred in English as well (man ~ men; full ~ fill; goose ~ geese) but English orthography does not indicate this using the umlaut diacritic.
Jump up ^ Note that not all such combinations are necessarily umlauts: In the town names Coesfeld and Raesfeld, for example, the e merely lengthens the preceding vowel ([oː] and [aː], respectively). In medieval German manuscripts, other digraphs were also commonly written using superscripts. In bluome ('flower'), for example, the ⟨o⟩ was frequently placed above the ⟨u⟩ (blůme). This letter survives now only in Czech. Compare also the development of the tilde as a superscript n.
Jump up ^ Hardwig, Florian. "Unusual Umlauts (German)". Typojournal. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
Jump up ^ Hardwig, Florian. "Jazz in Town". Fonts in Use. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
Jump up ^ "Flickr collection: vertical umlauts". Flickr. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
Jump up ^ Hardwig, Florian. "Compact umlaut". Fonts in Use. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
Jump up ^ Māori Orthographic Conventions, Māori Language Commission, accessed 11 June 2010.
Jump up ^ "Māori language on the internet", Te Ara
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