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Diaeresis (diacritic)

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3020: 895:. In such cases, the diaeresis has been replaced by the use of a hyphen ("co-operate", "re-enter"), particularly in British English, or by no indication at all ("cooperate", "reenter"), as in American English. The use of the diaeresis persists in a few publications, notably 419:. As a further extension, some languages began to use a diaeresis whenever a vowel letter was to be pronounced separately. This included vowels that would otherwise form digraphs with consonants or simply be silent. For example, in the orthographies of 1685:
The special tool we use here at The New Yorker for punching out the two dots that we then center carefully over the second vowel in such words as "naïve" and "Laocoön" will be getting a workout this year, as the Democrats coöperate to reëlect the
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and be pronounced as one sound, are instead to be read as separate vowels in two syllables. For example, in the spelling "coöperate", the diaeresis reminds the reader that the word has four syllables
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is left between vowels, but constituting its own syllable, which would end with a form identical in writing but different in pronunciation with those of the Present
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This article is about the use of two dots mark to denote the separation of two consecutive vowels. For other uses of the same mark, see
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normally represent the simple vowels and , respectively. However, hyphenation is now preferred for compound words so that
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The diaeresis was borrowed for this purpose in several languages of western and southern Europe, among them
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In addition, identically to Spanish, the diaeresis is used to differentiate the syllables
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The diaeresis diacritic indicates that two adjoining letters that would normally form a
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on the southern Peloponnesus peninsula, which in modern Greek is spelled
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in accents that have conserved all post-consonantal schwas, including in
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are normally read as diphthongs. To indicate exceptions to this rule (
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It consists of a two dots diacritic placed over a letter, generally a
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is silent in most modern accents; without the diacritic, both the
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normally represent a single sound, or , before the front vowels
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is not silent, and so is not affected by the spelling reform.)
204:. In English language texts it is perhaps most familiar in the 116: 95: 1913: 1731: 1698: 741: 735: 387: 381: 359: 353: 347: 341: 335: 309: 303: 279: 273: 1033:"sharp", the pronunciation does not change in most accents: 3552: 654: 98: 89: 645: 3353: 3346: 3339: 3332: 3325: 3318: 3311: 3304: 3297: 3290: 3283: 3276: 3269: 3262: 3255: 3248: 3241: 3234: 3227: 3220: 3213: 3206: 3199: 3192: 3185: 3178: 812: 806: 515: 504: 104: 314:) and means a "perforation", "orifice", or "pip" (as on 225:, and is also used officially in the name of the island 1283:. The diacritic can be the only one on a vowel, as in 963:, respectively, without the diaeresis mark, since the 1323:
use of diaeresis is very similar to that of Catalan:
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List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks
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This stems from the fact that an unstressed 670: 346:, most often at the beginning of a word, as in 3368: ◌̈, ◌̤  2748: 2736: 2535: 2496: 1327:are diphthongs consisting of one syllable but 1148: 1140: 1126: 1120: 585: 3051: 2652: 2623: 2613: 2603: 2456: 2407: 1929: 1416: 1410: 1404: 1398: 994:in a few proper nouns, as in the name of the 481: 467: 8: 2593: 2525: 2476: 1532:in America) so the distinction is important. 1523: 1517: 1078: 1072: 1064: 1050: 1044: 950: 944: 569: 535: 529: 2672: 1873:Normas Ortográficas do Idioma Galego (p.25) 1768:. University of Toronto Press. p. 343. 1458: 1452: 1446: 1440: 1434: 1306: 1300: 1290: 1284: 1266: 1260: 1254: 1244: 1227: 1221: 850: 844: 830: 755: 459:is pronounced, a diaeresis is added to it. 365: 3510: 3058: 3044: 3036: 2662: 2466: 2417: 1936: 1922: 1914: 2988:combining character § Unicode ranges 1295:, "academic"), or in combination with an 970:is pronounced . The English spelling of 27:Mark used to denote separation of vowels 3744:Precomposed Latin characters in Unicode 1664: 1662: 1570: 1489: 1157:forming a diphthong with the following 716:, where it represents the Greek letter 1200:occurs in a few proper names, such as 1192:, in addition to the pervasive use of 704: 695: 372:, where spacing was not yet used as a 36: 1377: 712:'Ÿ' is sometimes used in transcribed 619: 610: 590: 574: 540: 520: 509: 495: 486: 472: 7: 3728:DIN 91379: Unicode subset for Europe 3002:English terms with diacritical marks 1766:Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus 935:, the diaeresis is referred to as a 624:(before a consonant) "opportunities" 560:would be silent, or pronounced as a 156:occurs, so as to distinguish from a 835:are necessary because the digraphs 257:make regular use of the diaeresis. 25: 1781:The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology 1351:) was used in (mainly Brazilian) 990:occurs in French as a variant of 3019: 3018: 1583:Longman Pronunciation Dictionary 1557:is pronounced in those accents. 632: 298:), used in linguistics and also 82: 3134:International Phonetic Alphabet 1859:. The Mavens' Word of the Day. 1779:Bagnall, Roger S., ed. (2011). 1642:(second ed.). p. 38. 1059:of 1990, this was moved to the 1043:. Similar is the feminine noun 1832:Fowlers's Modern English Usage 1359:. It was used in combinations 683:, where a diaeresis separates 1: 2981:(placeholder glyph character) 1541:In a some varieties, such as 1463:is pronounced rather than . 1271:transcribe the simple vowels 1196:with vowels, diaeresis above 326:In Greek, two dots, called a 175:, the diacritic replaces the 3723:Western Latin character sets 1952:In Latin, Cyrillic and Greek 1764:Johnson, William A. (2013). 1671:"The Curse of the Diaeresis" 1037:as opposed to the city name 742: 730: 599:"we went out/used to go out" 304: 274: 3749:Letters used in mathematics 1857:diaeresis: December 9, 1998 1669:Norris, Mary (2012-04-26). 1357:1990 Orthographic Agreement 1307: 1291: 3824: 3808:Cyrillic-script diacritics 3360: 3166: 1732: 1699: 1607:The Unicode Standard v 5.0 1439:(to copy) contrasted with 1002:and in the surname of the 849:(sea duck) is now spelled 736: 679:This has been extended to 388: 382: 360: 354: 348: 342: 336: 310: 280: 29: 3762: 3073: 2996: 2749: 2737: 2673: 2663: 2653: 2624: 2614: 2604: 2594: 2584: 2536: 2526: 2497: 2487: 2477: 2467: 2457: 2428: 2418: 2408: 1828:Burchfield, R.W. (1996). 1473:Two dots (disambiguation) 1301: 1285: 1267: 1261: 1255: 1245: 1228: 1222: 1021:is added to the sequence 756: 171:; when that letter is an 51: 3170:ISO basic Latin alphabet 3126:ISO basic Latin alphabet 3121:Classical Latin alphabet 2950:tilde § Mathematics 2790:Marks used as diacritics 1451:('created') rather than 1249:the disyllabic sequence 568:, as in the proper name 3803:Greek-script diacritics 3798:Latin-script diacritics 1748:A Greek–English Lexicon 1715:A Greek–English Lexicon 1555:‑guë/‑güe 1478:Umlaut (disambiguation) 986:) comes from this use. 3793:Letters with diaeresis 2339: ◌҄  2257: ◌͂  2132: ◌̉  2003: ◌̑  1524: 1518: 1459: 1453: 1447: 1441: 1435: 1417: 1411: 1405: 1399: 1373: 1367: 1361: 1348: 1329:aï, eï, oï, aü, eü, oü 1325:ai, ei, oi, au, eu, ou 1153:), as those have said 1149: 1141: 1127: 1121: 1079: 1073: 1065: 1057:French spelling reform 1055:"fig". In the ongoing 1051: 1045: 983: 951: 945: 851: 845: 831: 813: 807: 671: 606: 586: 576:[ɛɡ(ə)mɔʁt(ə)] 570: 536: 530: 516: 505: 482: 468: 366: 295: 2185: ◌ͅ  1739:Liddell, Henry George 1706:Liddell, Henry George 904:MIT Technology Review 867:, the diaeresis, the 746:) at the very end of 300:classical scholarship 154:diaeresis (or hiatus) 3025:Category: Diacritics 2829: ◌:  1630:Shaw, Harry (1993). 1379:[sɐ̃ˈɡwinju] 955:would be pronounced 877:only diacritics used 829:, spellings such as 734:of the Persian name 511:[liŋˈɡwistɔ] 302:, is from the Greek 233:. Languages such as 137:) is a name for the 32:Two dots (diacritic) 3364:umlaut or diaeresis 3130:Phonetic alphabets 2759:dakuten, handakuten 2711:Gurmukhī diacritics 1640:Punctuate It Right! 1049:"hemlock"; compare 474:[piŋˈɡwino] 378:phonological hiatus 330:, were used in the 67:COMBINING DIAERESIS 3656:Keyboard layouts ( 2906:Non-diacritic uses 1103:of verbs ended in 592:[miŋˈɡwej] 522:[aˈkwatik] 500:"matter, question" 497:[kwəstiˈo] 332:Hellenistic period 3780: 3779: 3651: 3650: 3499: 3498: 3146:Spelling alphabet 3033: 3032: 3014:Punctuation marks 2920:caret (computing) 2776:Syriac diacritics 2721:diacritics in IPA 2716:Hebrew diacritics 2701:Arabic diacritics 1899:"Rae::ortografía" 1592:978-0-582-36467-7 1194:umlaut diacritics 750:, or the name of 621:[ˈʃɑ̃ːsə] 566:poetry recitation 488:[ˈajɣwəs] 368:scriptio continua 181:⟨ï⟩ 173:⟨i⟩ 130:-ə-siss, -⁠ 75: 74: 18:Trema (diacritic) 16:(Redirected from 3815: 3511: 3471: 3464: 3457: 3450: 3443: 3436: 3429: 3422: 3415: 3408: 3401: 3394: 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Index

Trema (diacritic)
Two dots (diacritic)
/dˈɛrəsɪs,-ˈɪər-/
dy-ERR-ə-siss, -⁠EER-
two dots
diacritical mark
diaeresis (or hiatus)
digraph
diphthong
vowel
tittle
digraph
The New Yorker
loan words
naïve
Noël
Chloë
Teän
Coös County
Dutch
Afrikaans
Catalan
French
Galician
Spanish
Greek
trema
French
classical scholarship
dice

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