This usage is largely obsolete, though it is still part of the house style of The New Yorker magazine and MIT Technology Review, but survives in words like naïve which are borrowed from languages which do use diaereses to varying degrees. A diaeresis was traditionally used in vowel pairings where the second vowel is pronounced in a separate syllable, hence they are found in archaic spellings of words such as coöperate, preëmptive or Zodiäc. Not to be confused with other uses of diaereses (also called trema), in which diacritic marks identical to umlauts can appear in some English words. In common Metal parlance, however, gratuitous umlauts are not pronounced, but this hasn't stopped fans of Queensrÿche asking about the . Not to mention, "ü" definitely resembles a smile. (If you have a non-rhotic accent, the first two sounds are changed to "air" and "ur".) Ironically, the idea that a heavy rock band could make itself look hard and tough by adding umlauts is one that provokes amusement among many native German speakers, who apparently associate the letter "ö" with "cute", "sweet", "cuddly". The bands should therefore be pronounced "Mo-tuhrr-head" and "Blue Uhy-ster cult". They are pronounced, respectively, as: the e in bed (like a combination of a & e) a French "eu", which happens occasionally in English such as the i in sir (o + e) and a French u, made by forming the letter o with your lips, and voicing "eeeee" (u + e). Incidentally, the only letters in German that include umlauts are ä, ö and ü. Einstürzende Neubauten and Björk are therefore not examples of this trope. Some artists from countries where umlauts are used in the local language have a genuine ümlaut in their band or personal names. It must be nöted that this tröpe is about the gratuitoüs usage of umlauts, not "any usage of umlauts".
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