I am having trouble typing a special character for a word.

Question

Today, during a Recall activity, I was typing the word for "kayaking". The Spanish for this is "hacer paraguismo." However, the flashcards showed a mark that I have noticed before- two dots over the u in the third syllable. This character does not appear in the special characters list available under the text boxes on Spanishdict, and I am not sure how the symbol affects pronunciation...So how do I type the symbol, and how does it influence pronunciation?

Welcome to the forum:) - 00494d19, Sep 2, 2010

Answer 1

To type the symbol, press and hold ALT and press (don't hold) O, 2, 5, 2

It does affect the pronunciation... i.e. vergüenza, the adjective for "embarrassed". With the dots, it's pronounced ver-goo-en-za. Without the dots, the "u" becomes a weak vowel and it would be pronounced as ver-hoo-en-za.

Answer 2

dieresis (Alt 0252) ü ü ü

Or if you are using the US International keyboard:

let me find it. It has some key combination with the Y key

Ü = Shift apostrophe U

I don't know if it changed with this editor or what. I used to make it using the apostrophe and y key. It won't work now. US Intl key map