Yanick Champoux wrote: > Chris Dolan wrote: >> On a major tangent, have others noticed the resurgence of the umlaut >> in printed English? I keep seeing things like coöperation or >> coördinates -- particularly in Technology Review, but in other >> publications on occasion too. Is that because it's *supposed* to be >> spelled that way, but ASCII and the typewriter have suppressed that >> spelling for my lifetime? >> > > A quick use of Google-fu unearthed a blog entry > http://www.dwelle.org/archives/2007/01/05/whats-with-all-the-umlauts/, > which in turn pointed to the page > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/profirst/d.htm that says: > > *dieresis* or *diæresis *A diacritical mark (* ¨ *) optionally used in > English, oftentimes replaced by a hyphen. In English, the dieresis is > used on a second identical vowel to indicate a change in pronunciation > of that vowel or indicate it is pronounced in a separate syllable. It is > sometimes referred to as an « umlaut » when used with a single character > or in a « diphthong. » Examples: reëlecting, reëncoding, coöperation, > coördination.
Because, ya know, I always get confused about how to pronounce "reelecting". Thank god they cleared that right up! And with an easy to understand symbol that everyone knows about! :P Really they just want to be more metal. Soon it will be ¡KömpUsërV.DøøM! -- There will be snacks.
