Timeline for What is the difference between a dieresis and an umlaut?
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| Oct 15, 2020 at 23:25 | comment | added | llama | @Mark or New Yorkish theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2012/04/… | |
| Oct 15, 2020 at 19:12 | history | edited | M. Justin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 15, 2020 at 18:19 | comment | added | M. Justin | @MartinSchröder I created an initial version of the tag usage guidance & wiki, though it could be made more complete: english.stackexchange.com/tags/diaeresis/info | |
| Oct 15, 2020 at 14:32 | history | edited | M. Justin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 14, 2020 at 21:17 | comment | added | Martin Schröder | The diaeresis tag wiki needs love, btw. | |
| Oct 14, 2020 at 20:42 | comment | added | Zsolt Szilagy | @M.Justin: Understandable. Maybe Götterdämmerung and Doppelgänger might be the only other known ones. | |
| Oct 14, 2020 at 17:55 | comment | added | M. Justin | @ZsoltSzilagy There was a very limited selection of German loanwords in English that I could find that still had the umlaut, let alone ones that would be at least somewhat commonly known. | |
| Oct 14, 2020 at 16:14 | comment | added | Zsolt Szilagy | "übermensch" is the most 1933-ish example for a German word I can think of. | |
| Oct 14, 2020 at 12:13 | comment | added | Bob says reinstate Monica | Just to confuse matters further, in Swedish ä and ö are neither diereses nor umlauts, but are considered as separate letters of the alphabet (along with å). | |
| Oct 14, 2020 at 10:18 | answer | added | Tristan | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 14, 2020 at 6:21 | vote | accept | M. Justin | ||
| Oct 13, 2020 at 23:20 | comment | added | Mark | An umlaut is German, a dieresis is French. | |
| Oct 13, 2020 at 20:36 | comment | added | Alice | Also, just want to point out that the diacritic mark in question can also serve as neither umlaut nor diaeresis, most notably in Cyrillic letter "ё" ("yo"). | |
| Oct 13, 2020 at 15:24 | answer | added | Greybeard | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 13, 2020 at 14:57 | history | edited | M. Justin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 13, 2020 at 14:44 | history | edited | M. Justin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 13, 2020 at 14:36 | comment | added | M. Justin | @TRiG — From what I can see looking at various online sources, "dieresis" & "umlaut" can refer to the linguistic phenomena, as well as the diacritic mark used in its particular context. "Trema" refers to the diacritic mark used in either context. So either is accurate, so long as you don't refer to the dots in an umlaut as a "dieresis" or vice versa. | |
| Oct 13, 2020 at 10:36 | comment | added | TRiG | I'm putting this as a comment, because I don't have time to research an answer, but I'd say that both diaeresis and umlaut are phenomena of words, and the name of the actual accent mark is trema. | |
| Oct 13, 2020 at 8:45 | answer | added | Günther | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 13, 2020 at 8:32 | comment | added | Rayan Khan | Related questions on ELL: Why does the i in naïve have two dots and this one on ELU. | |
| Oct 13, 2020 at 8:22 | comment | added | IMSoP | I'm extremely disappointed you didn't include "Spın̈al Tap" in your examples. :) | |
| Oct 13, 2020 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1315895056319082496 | ||
| Oct 13, 2020 at 5:50 | history | edited | M. Justin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 12, 2020 at 19:31 | answer | added | Sven Yargs | timeline score: 28 | |
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| Oct 12, 2020 at 18:49 | comment | added | Weather Vane | When did Haïti become Haiti? Unlike naive it does not seem to be pronounced as a dieresis any more. | |
| Oct 12, 2020 at 18:35 | history | edited | M. Justin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clarify the dots in "Zoë" are a dieresis
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| Oct 12, 2020 at 18:33 | comment | added | Nigel J | The word dieresis contains (ie) a dieresis. | |
| Oct 12, 2020 at 18:26 | history | edited | M. Justin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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