[net.nlang] Yet another puzzle

minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow) (08/20/83)

Several high-brow newspapers and magazines (New York Times and the
New Yorker, for example) write words such as cooperate with
a dieresis over the second 'o'.

Can anybody think of English words which are written with a dieresis
over some other letter?

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Martin Minow
decvax!minow

Thanks.

philipl@bronze.UUCP (Philip Lantz) (08/21/83)

preemption

prl

CSvax:Pucc-H:aeq@pur-ee.UUCP (08/27/83)

I believe that words containing two consecutive e's in two consecutive
syllables, e.g. reestablish, have been known to be written with a dieresis
over the second "e".

-- Jeff Sargent/pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq

pct@vaxine.UUCP (Pierre Trepagnier) (08/30/83)

I have always believed the idea was to indicate that the 2 vowels are to
be pronounced separately, e.g. "noel" as "nowell" rather than "nole".