Citations:röck döts
English citations of röck döts
Noun: "(informal, humorous) heavy metal umlauts"
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- 2005 — Michael Dwyer, "The full Mötley", The Age, 2 December 2005:
- In the world of heavy metal, the umlaut - otherwise known as röck döts - is the ultimate illustration of Spinal Tap's dictum that there's a fine line between clever and stupid.
- 2006 — Björn Türoque (pen name of Dan Crane), To Air Is Human: One Man's Quest to Become the World's Greatest Air Guitarist, Riverhead Books (2006), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- I imagine I'd be seeing a lot of metal tonight, so why not go for an obscure eighties punk song? Plus, Hüsker Dü = dual röck döts!
- 2015, Bernd Kappenberg, Setting Signs for Europe: Why Diacritics Matter for European Integration[5], Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 99:
- Diacritics are not folkloristic or moribund relics of European language culture that must give way to the dominance of English spelling sooner or later: the appearance of heavy metal umlauts aka "röck döts" has long been known (1969). It is a special form of foreign branding.