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On their second album ''[[In Search of Space]]'' (1971), [[Hawkwind]] wrote on the backside of the cover: "{{unicode|TECHNICIÄNS ÖF SPÅCE SHIP EÅRTH THIS IS YÖÜR CÄPTÅIN SPEÄKING YÖÜR ØÅPTÅIN IS DEA̋D}}". To add to the variation, the diacritical mark on the last "{{unicode|A̋}}" is the "Hungarian umlaut" or [[double acute accent]] ({{unicode|˝}})—two short lines slanting up and to the right rather like a right double-quote mark—instead of dots (Hungarian does not use the ({{unicode|˝}}) umlaut over the letter "A", though). This was before [[Lemmy Kilmister]], later of [[Motörhead]], had become a member of the group.
 
Motörhead and [[Mötley Crüe]] then followed. The umlaut in ''Motörhead'' was contributed by the graphic designer of the band's first album cover. In the words of Lemmy, Motörhead's front man: "I only put it in there to look mean." [http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&articleid=21891] (Interestingly, the standard German pronunciation of ''MotorMotör'' is similar to the standard English pronunciation of "motor", the umlaut over the second "o" requiring, in German, the fronting of the vowel. The French equivalent, ''moteur'', is genuinely pronounced that way.)
At one [[Mötley Crüe]] performance in Germany, the entire audience started chanting "Moetley Crueh!"