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Re:How the Å came to be by YeGoblynQueenne on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @07:07AM (#16060315)
>> And in French, it's the letter "A" with a diaresis mark, which neither makes it a distinct letter of the alphabet, nor a distinct vowel, it's just a mark that signifies that two adjacent vowels should not be pronounced as a diphtong.

I can't think of an example of a French word where an A takes a diairesis. Can you give one?

Wikipedia has this to say:

En français, le tréma peut se placer sur les voyelles e, i, u (et y dans des noms propres) pour indiquer, normalement, que la voyelle qui précède doit être prononcée séparément et ne fait pas partie d'un digramme.

[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%A9ma]

Re:How the Å came to be by henrikschroder on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @07:46PM (#16066961)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te%C3%A4n

(Super uncommon, yes, but it exists)