Hence, in Low German dialects commonly encountered in the United States, such as Pennsylvania German, the word "schön" rhymes with the English words 'pain' and 'explain'. Standard German "Danke schön" would be translated into Pennsylvania German as "danki schee" () or "dank scheene" (). Similarly, it would be translated into , (, ). The German letter "ö" can also be written using the older typography "oe" (schön = schoen) – of which the umlauted "O" is a contraction – when umlauts are unavailable or not readily accessible. Milt Gabler, the author of the English lyrics of the song, was the son of Austrian and Russian Jewish immigrants and would have been most familiar with the Yiddish pronunciation of the word "schön" (or "schoen") as "sheyn".