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Is the diaeresis legal in “naïve”? [duplicate]
I understand why naïve is spelled with two dots, and that those dots are called a diaeresis.
What I do not understand is whether the use of a diaeresis is legal in English; is it?
Other than ...
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Is there a hiatus in the word 'aerial'?
My editor informed me that, if I use any diaeresis marks at all, then I must be consistent! I consistently use a diaeresis mark in coördinator and coöperation.
The periodical, Popular Educator (c ...
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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 do the letters ï and ô mean? [duplicate]
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What is the distinction between “role” and “rôle” [with a circumflex]?
What is the significance of the “ô” character in “rôle” in this work?
What is the standard rule ...
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adding a prefix “re” to a word, with or without a hyphen?
In science we often invent words, but that doesn't mean we know how to spell them. Most of the time words are invented by adding prefixes. In that case should there be a hyphen or not? Specifically, I ...
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What is the standard rule for using or not using hyphen and diaeresis on the words like reelect , reexamine, and cooperate?
I found that diaeresis is used on the word, reelection in the following sentence of the article titled “Rational Irrationality” in the New Yorker magazine (April 27).
“This morning’s news that ...
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“Whereäs” as an alternative spelling of “whereas”
Wiktionary shows whereäs as a valid alternative spelling of the word whereas (see here).
It gives the following quotations to illustrate the usage:
1 Permanent International Association of ...
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Contemporary native English words with diacritics
As I understand, ö in coöperation is considered archaic (or is it?) and words like résumé, cliché and naïve are copied directly from foreign languages.
Are there any contemporary native ...
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Authoritative source on the diaeresis trema rule [duplicate]
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“Whereäs” as an alternative spelling of “whereas”
I've got an impression that there is (or was) a rule in English:
If you have a rarely ...
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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 ...
