Questions tagged [diaeresis]
This tag is for questions related to the diaeresis, both the linguistic separation of a vowel as well as the diacritic (¨) used to indicate the separation.
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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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What's the standard rule for the use of hyphens and diaereses in 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 economic ...
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Is it spelt "naïve" or "naive"? [duplicate]
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“Whereäs” as an alternative spelling of “whereas”
I've always wondered which is the correct spelling: "naïve" or "naive"? Are both correct, and it is just ...
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Should the prefix "re" be added 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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New Yorker Dieresis Rule; prosaic, unionized?
There are lots of informal references to the traditional / "New Yorker" style of using diereses to disambiguate runs of vowels, however I have yet to find a definitive guide.
See, for ...
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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 (non-borrowed) ...
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Does anyone write "noöne" with a diaeresis?
Related: "Whereäs" as an alternative spelling of "whereas"
Does anyone write "no-one" as "noöne", with the diaeresis (double-dot) serving to separate the syllables?
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“Zoe” or “Zoë”: which is the correct spelling? [closed]
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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Is it acceptable that I use ligatures and diæreses?
As we may all know, ligatures and diæreses have long become obsolescent. However, I see the logic behind spelling words with ligatures and diæreses. For example: algæ, formulæ, æon, æqulateral, ...
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Naïve, naïf, naïvety, naïveté
I have two related questions about the word "naïve" and its relatives. The first is, shouldn't it be "naïf" if the subject is male? I've been told that it's correct to use the correct ending of ...
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"Naïve" yet "naivety"?
I am used to spelling "naïve" thus - "naïve". I am also used to Microsoft Word automatically changing "naive" to "naïve". Hence, I was surprised when it didn't change "naivety" to "naïvety". I then ...
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Usage of macrons in Latin loanwords
I know that diacritics are often retained in loanwords in formal writing (cf. naïveté), but I haven't seen this done with direct adaptation of Latin words; i.e., per se.
In Latin, per sē comes with a ...
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