More random facts. Yesterday, I covered the history and origin of doughnuts. Today, how about unique German characters? 'ÄäÖöÜü' The "dots" above the characters are 'umlauten', or 'umlauts.' They indicate a certain diacritic or accent note. 'Ä/ä' is pronounced as 'ayy'; 'Ö/ö' is pronounced as 'ooh'; 'Ü/ü' is, well, basically the same as the O mit der umlaut, although there is often a 'y' sound before it. The umlaut is not unique to German, and can be seen in other languages such as Swedish, Finnish, Turkish, et cetera. The final character is 'ẞ/ß', which is known as an 'eszett', or 'double s.' When the character is not available, as the name implies, an 'ss' takes its place instead. It is not to be confused with characters such as 'B/b'.

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