Estase has been annoyed to hear Fox News personalities mispronounce the name of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller. He chalked it up to the stupidity of the Fox personalities, until he watched CNN and saw them do the same thing.
The umlaut is a piece of German punctuation (ȕ) that essentially means that the character is given extra depth. An umlaut u is pronounced "ooh" rather than just "uh". Since English doesn't use umlauts, Mȕller is rendered the other way, with an e after the u. (Mueller) Similarly, in the original German, Ferris Bueller would be Ferris Bȕller. Bueller? Bueller?
So for the love of pete, stop pronouncing the Special Prosecutor's name "mull-er," and pronounce it "mew-ler." Otherwise, you are demonstrating you aren't aware of the special relationship between umlaut and u.
The umlaut is a piece of German punctuation (ȕ) that essentially means that the character is given extra depth. An umlaut u is pronounced "ooh" rather than just "uh". Since English doesn't use umlauts, Mȕller is rendered the other way, with an e after the u. (Mueller) Similarly, in the original German, Ferris Bueller would be Ferris Bȕller. Bueller? Bueller?
So for the love of pete, stop pronouncing the Special Prosecutor's name "mull-er," and pronounce it "mew-ler." Otherwise, you are demonstrating you aren't aware of the special relationship between umlaut and u.
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