To non-linguist English speakers, languages with the same letters as the English alphabet plus a few more with two dots on top, are just referred to as English-letter-name with-umlaut.
This is incorrect, from a linguistic perspective, but it's absolutely the case that if I asked 10 of my friends to describe Ä, 9 of them would say "'A' with an umlaut".
The vernacular not matching expert terms of art never ceases to annoy people, but it's not really worth fighting, I don't think.
This is incorrect, from a linguistic perspective, but it's absolutely the case that if I asked 10 of my friends to describe Ä, 9 of them would say "'A' with an umlaut".
The vernacular not matching expert terms of art never ceases to annoy people, but it's not really worth fighting, I don't think.