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The total number of dots on two dice - is 42.
This is the sequence of triangular numbers. You draw one dot. Then you draw two dots in the line below - one to the left and one to the right of the first dot. You now have a triangle, of three dots. Then you draw three dots in the next line and you get a triangle with 6 dots. Next, four more dots in the next line giving a triangle with 10 dots. The name is easy to understand if you can visualise or even actually draw these dots. It is difficult to demonstrate through an ordinary word processing package.
An umlaut. An umlaut is just one example of a diacritical. Other diacriticals whose names are useful to learn are the tilde, circumflex, and cedilla.
A ray
It is an accent such as FARAAD
The name "Zoë" with two dots above the "e" is pronounced as "Zoh-ee" with a long "o" sound and emphasis on the second syllable.
It means i typed two dots
The two dots above a letter, you mean, would be called a diaeresis and/or an umlaut.
There is two dots above the Mn, there your two S dots
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The two dots above the "e" in Brontë are called a diaeresis. It is used to indicate that the "e" is pronounced separately from the preceding vowel. It is a diacritic mark that helps with the correct pronunciation and emphasis of the name.
funf... but the 'u' has the two dots above it
No, you are not.
In English, the country's name is spelled Sweden (in Swedish, it is Sverige).
There are only three letters with umlauts in German. ä, ü, and ö. Umlauts at the two dots over the letters.
This kind of accent is called an "umlaut".