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The rat's name is Conroy II, btw.

When he caught particularly pretty or friendly rats, or one with unusual colors, he bred them to each other, establishing the domesticated rat as wee know them today. He began selling them mainly "to well-bred young ladies to keep in squirrel cages". Queen Victoria and her ladies kept fancy rats. Beatrix Potter was another customer, she named hers Samuel Whiskers and wrote a book about him.

so think of old Jack Black next time you play with a cuddly pet rat!

correct: ä = ae ö = oe ü = ue (and ß = ss)

INCORRECT: ä = a ö = o ü = u

Leaving out the dots can actually change the meaning of words. Examples:

schwül: muggy, sticky schwul: gay [homosexual] ächten: to outlaw achten: to regard/respect sb./sth. schön: beautiful schon: already, yet

correct: ä = a ö = o

INCORRET ä = ae ö = oe

The Finnish ä/ö are not grammatically umlauts.

For example haen and hän are two separate, unrelated words, former meaning "I retrieve", latter meaning both "she" and "he".

So if you need to type the name Väinö, it's infinitely better to type Vaino (even though this does change the meaning from "calm spot of water" to "persecution") than Vaeinoe which is complete gibberish and difficult to pronounce. It looks even worse when there are long vowels, such as in the surname Jääskeläinen. Do not type Jaeaeskelaeinen, type Jaaskelainen.

Some other exmaples:

So, there’s a scene in season one where Albert asks what all the noise is and Victoria says, “the muffin man!” and then Albert responds “the muffin man?” And each time I always yell “THE MUFFIN MAN!”

Now, my mum has severe memory issues due to her medication (some could be age, but the meds she is on are known for causing poor short term memory) so she always forgets and it brings me so much joy when she just laughs at me every time.

I’m convinced they wrote those lines as a reference to Shrek, there’s no way it’s an accident.

Like the muffin man, who lives on Drury Lane???😭.