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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 ''
At one [[Mötley Crüe]] performance in Germany, the entire audience started chanting "Moetley Crueh!"
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