?ber
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The title of this article contains the character ?. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as ueber.
For the Sturmgeist album see ?ber (album).
?ber (German pronunciation (help·info)) comes from the German language. It is a cognate of both Latin super and Greek ?pe? (hyper), as well as English over (as in "overkill"). During the 2000s, ?ber also became a synonym for super; e.g. ?berleet = superleet, generally with a slightly intensified meaning. ?ber is commonly written as uber in English, though with slightly different meaning.
The normal transliteration of the "?" ('u' with a diaresis representing an umlaut) when used in writing systems without diacritics (such as airport arrival boards, older computer systems, etc.) is "ue", not just "u"; however, it could be argued that the English language use of the word uber is a new word distinct from ueber[citation needed]. This is because English is defined by common use of words, which dictionaries and academia record, not the reverse. The use of '?', 'u', and 'ue' in the word is an emerging trend in common usage in English with no clear consensus.
