Hi Rena and Detlev:
When Rena stated that the old German alphabet had no umlauts, I dug up my "Edna
M. Bentz" book and was astounded that the only time she used the umlaut was for
the sometimes 6th vowel "y". So from where did the umlaut come? I did notice
that in the Gothic Alphabet used in old Danish has several marks or whatever
they may appropriately be called. She has the A with a little o over it Å, an A
with an umlaut Ä, an AE run together Æ, an O with " over it Ő, and AN O
with a slash through it Ø. I do realize now that when my GF refused to add the
e to Bösche and allowed the umlaut to be dropped, that it must be pronounce
different than it was in Prussia (Immigrated 1867). We pronounce it the same as
in Bob. All my aunts and uncles emphatically state that is the way GP
pronounced it.
Thanks Detlev on the discription of the cross uses of the unlaut and various
letters. I do not use the Alt + numbers as I am using Windows XP, which makes
keyboard options available in several languages. It places a little keyboard
symbol on the task bar and allows me to change from one language to another.
There is an option for an "on screen keyboard" in each of those languages. The
onscreen keyboard allows you to hunt and peck with the curser.
Thanks,
Gale Bosche/Gale Bösche