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Re:Umlauts, Diaereses, and the New Yorker (2020) by CalRobert on Thursday January 30, 2025 @05:10PM (#42882678)
In Dutch I appreciate the diaresis in zeeën and the like. Can’t think of an English example though.
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Re:Umlauts, Diaereses, and the New Yorker (2020) by seszett on Thursday January 30, 2025 @05:23PM (#42882774)
Naïf... if you can call that English.
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Re:Umlauts, Diaereses, and the New Yorker (2020) by Symbiote on Thursday January 30, 2025 @05:49PM (#42882984)
It's English. Naïve is more commonly known.

Very few people would write the dots, but I wonder if that's more because they don't know how to type it than anything else.

Here's a list: https://github.com/RichardLitt/diaeresis-word-list

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Re:Umlauts, Diaereses, and the New Yorker (2020) by maxdamantus on Thursday January 30, 2025 @09:24PM (#42884198)
Maybe "cooëeïng", though I don't think I've seen that written with diaereses (probably not a very common word, but it's a nice example of a long vowel letter sequence, and one that people from NZ/Australia should understand).
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