132 is the code for the letter ä, the a umlaut. Then press ALT and keep it pressed while you type the code 132 on the number pad. Press NUM on the number pad of your keyboard to activate the NUM-lock. Ø = Hold down the Control and Shift keys and type a / (slash), release the keys, hold down the Shift key and type an O. Word adds an umlaut to the letter when it inserts it. To create a ü, hold down the Ctrl, Shift and : keys simultaneously. Internet addresses are written as “ue” because the internet address system can only understand ordinary English letters. In English language newspapers it is often written as U or u but this is not correct. It can be replaced by using the letters Ue or ue. Ü or ü is one of the 4 extra letters used in German. Use Office’s Unicode shortcut combination to put an umlaut over a non-vowel character. Release the keys, and then type a vowel in upper or lower case. Hold down the “Ctrl” and “Shift” keys, and then press the colon key. 19 What do you call the U with two dots on top?.16 How do you use Alt codes on a laptop?.14 What keyboard layout does Sweden use?.11 How do you insert an umlaut in PowerPoint?.9 How do you type an umlaut on a laptop keyboard?.8 What does the U with the two dots mean?.7 What is the difference between Ü and ū?.1 How do you put an umlaut over a letter?.But that’s how Gus said it, that’s how the old timers say it, that’s how the ads back in the heyday of Buescher say it, that’s how the guy who was engaged to Gus’s daughter said it, and that’s good enough for me. They still meet although most of the old guard I used to know have died… …I think it’s just the German pronunciation of his name or at least the way old Gus used to like hearing his name.”Īnd lastly, here is this story about former Selmer USA worker and master mouthpiece craftsman Ralph Morgan from Brian Powell, who worked under Ralph for a very long time: “I recall Ralph always pronouncing it Bisher, and at one point in time he was engaged to be married to Gus’s daughter.” I’ve been to several club meetings of the retired instrument manufacture factory workers in Elkhart. In fact, you get scolded if you say it any other way. Getting back to Buescher the maker of saxophones, here is Mark Overton of Saxquest: “Bisher is what all the old timers from Elkhart say. However, NASCAR racer Chris Buescher says it “Busher”, and so do the announcers who talk about him: Here is an example: Buescher State Park in Texas, named after some local folks named Buescher, is pronounced how the eponymous Bueschers said it (Bisher) in this video here: So when I eventually got curious enough to find out, I called people named Buescher that I found online (this was the early days of the internet) and asked them how they said it- and got different answers!
In fact, since my very first saxophone was a post-buyout Buescher Aristocrat (basically a Bundy) I was always curious as to how I should say it. Like my last name “Stohrer”, which in English is usually pronounced like “store” but is subtly different if you are speaking German (and quite different if you are talking about the Stohrer Patisserie in Paris), Buescher is pronounced pretty much however the so-named person wishes to say it- within a narrow range, anyways.
) What we are left with in cases like this is a decision on the part of the person with that name on how to pronounce it in English. To see how to pronounce a word with an umlaut, see this video here. (The “ü” is a u with a Germanic umlaut, which has no phoneme that exactly matches in English. The deal is that “Buescher” is an Americanized version of Büscher, and neither are exactly like the original name would have been pronounced in Germany. This ad from the late 50s/early 60s says to say “Busher”. I happen to have a Buescher ad from the 1940s hanging on the wall above my workbench. How to pronounce the name of the Buescher Band Instrument Company (named after the founder, Gus Buescher) is something that comes up frequently among folks such as myself- saxophone geeks who also like to get things right- and while the story is a little complex, there is what I think is a “right” way to say it.