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Frau Muller or Frau Müller?

Shouldn't that be Müller with an umlaut?

It should be but it isn't. In my edition, the character is referred to as Muller (no umlaut) throughout the entire narrative. It's strange as Pullman uses quite a few genuine German names and even employs what could be a bilingual pun (Woodenkopf -> Holzkopf) so he might have some knowledge of German. I don't remember that there were any umlauts present in the book at all but in one instance there was a very minor character called Wurmhoell; this is a very unlikely name in real life but is nominally good German, and in this specific case the umlaut "ö" is substituted by "oe" which is a common practice when umlauts are not available (e.g. when writing messages on non-German keyboards). So one could expect Pullman to have called his character Frau Mueller but he didn't.Jack L Rains (talk) 07:03, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

trivia

moved this from article:

Trivia The novel borrows story elements from the opera Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber.

Filmmaker Henry Selick has optioned the book with a view to making it into a film.

with appropriate citing and wording could go back.Coolabahapple (talk) 10:25, 16 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]