Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> writes: > On 2022-09-23 10:13:50 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> naïvely (and naïve) are correct alternate spellings in English. >> English historically uses a diaeresis to indicate that two adjacent >> vowels form separate syllables rather than a diphthong. This is one of >> the only "native" accept marks in the English language, which otherwise >> only uses accept marks in loan words and tends to drop them. > If naïve is correct, I find it strange that none of dict-gcide, dict-wn > and dict-foldoc have it, while they know "naive". Ditto for naïvely vs > naively in dict-gcide and dict-wn. Maybe they don't cope with accent marks? I'm not sure what to tell you other than that good English dictionaries are (unfortunately) proprietary and the freely available dictionaries, while useful for many things, are of poorer quality. Merriam-Webster (one of the canonical US dictionaries) lists it as a variant: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/naive The OED (the canonical UK dictionary) also lists it as a form, with the following etymology note: All editions of D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. s.v. naïve mark stress on the second syllable, until 1947 giving alternative pronunciations with stress on the first. Editions until 1982 give the form naive as a separate headword, with the monosyllabic pronunciation /neɪv/. (No direct link because I have OED access via my local public library.) See also: https://www.languagetrainers.com/blog/youre-not-naive-not-to-know-about-diaereses/ https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/51042/why-does-the-i-in-na%C3%AFve-have-two-dots All that said, it *is* much more common than not to omit the diaeresis, and that is certainly a simple solution to this specific bug. (But as Pod::Text and Pod::Man maintainer, I'm glad that you reported it because I think there are deeper bugs in both modules that I need to fix.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
