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What does the umlaut mean over the E in the name “Zoë”? [duplicate]
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“Zoe” or “Zoë”: which is the correct spelling?
The ë in the name Zoë suggests that the e should be pronounced as a long a. The name is from the Greek goddess of ...
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What are the different ways an accent mark can go over the letter A & how are they pronounced? [closed]
I've found specifically these ones: á, à, â, å, ä. I believe they COULD be used in the English language, or root ones such as Celtic & Germanic, but I don't know how they are pronounced.
Oh, and ...
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Why do some English speakers pronounce “fête” as “fate”?
In French, from whom we’ve borrowed the word, it’s /fɛt/ “fet”.
But if we pronounced it as if it were an English word after dropping the accent, it would be /fi:t/ “feet”.
Yet the pronunciation we ...
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“Zoe” or “Zoë”: which is the correct spelling?
I have a relation who has named their child Zoe, on the grounds that “in English we don’t use the dots”, but they pronounce it like the second version.
Of course I don’t want to argue that’s not the ...
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Why is “sauté” spelled with an accent and “repartee” not?
Why are these words spelled differently? They have the same sound at the end, right?
