heavy-metal umlaut

heavy-metal umlaut (plural heavy-metal umlauts)

1. Alternative form of heavy metal umlaut.
   • 2007, Greg P. Herriges, “Smokin’ in the Boys Room”, in Hard Rock Guitar Songs For Dummies, Milwaukee, Wis.: Hal Leonard Corporation, →ISBN, “Performance Notes” section, page 176:

     One of many acts of delinquency promoted by Mötley Crüe is free use of the heavy-metal umlaut with reckless disregard for lïnguïstïc cönventiöns.

   • 2008, Ken Jennings, “September 24”, in Ken Jennings’s Trivia Almanac: 8,888 Questions in 365 Days, New York, N.Y.: Villard Books, →ISBN, page 382:

     • 1848 • Branwell Brontë, the only brother of literature’s famous Brontë sisters, dies of tuberculosis. Branwell was a hard-partying alcoholic and probably a drug addict—as you could no doubt tell from the bad-ass heavy-metal umlaut over the “e” in his name.

   • 2008, Simmone Howell, “Lucky Smoke”, in Everything Beautiful, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 60:

     His bag was graffed up with band names I didn’t recognize—lightning bolts and heavy-metal umlauts.

   • 2010, Charles Petzold, “Elements and Properties”, in Microsoft Silverlight Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7, Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, →ISBN, part II (Silverlight), page 175:

     All scaling is relative to the upper-left corner of the text. In other words, as the text gets larger or smaller, the upper-left corner of the text remains in place. This might be a little hard to see because the upper-left corner that remains in place is actually a little above the horizontal stroke of the first ‘T’ in the text string, in the area reserved for diacritics such as accent marks and heavy-metal umlauts.