This is a series of posts that will talk about some of my favorite (parenthetical) songs. See if you agree with any of these!
“(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” is the signature song by the American rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released in July 1976 as the lead single from their album Agents of Fortune, and it remains one of the defining rock recordings of the 1970s. Written and sung by lead guitarist Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser, the song emerged from his reflections on mortality after concerns about his own health
A way to indicate how one vowel could influence another when spoken aloud.
In linguistics, umlaut, which is from the German “sound alteration”, is a sound change in which a vowel is pronounced more like a following vowel or semivowel. Umlaut is a form of assimilation[1], the process of one speech sound becoming more similar to a nearby sound. The diaeresis, also known as the trema, and the umlaut are two different diacritical marks[2] that (in modern usage) look alike. They both consist of two dots ¨ placed over a letter, usually a vowel.
