diaeresis

How To Use diaeresis In A Sentence

• As several commenters have pointed out, both publications insist on using the diaeresis mark (as in naïve, for example) even though it hasn't been in common usage for several decades at least.
• The New Yorker is probably the last popular magazine in the English-speaking world where the editors insist on the diaeresis (not umlaut) in ‘cöoperate’.
• The New Yorker is probably the last popular magazine in the English-speaking world where the editors insist on the diaeresis (not umlaut) in ‘cöoperate’.
• For the accent challenged, like me before looking it up, to put a diaeresis above the 'e' in Zoë: in comments hold down [ALT] and key 137 into the number keypad (the number line above the letter keyboard won't work). With bright eyes, we look forward to . . .
• As several commenters have pointed out, both publications insist on using the diaeresis mark (as in naïve, for example) even though it hasn't been in common usage for several decades at least.
• The term diaeresis earlier diæresis, US dieresis derives from a Greek word meaning 'divide' or 'separate'. On di(a)ereses
• The term diaeresis earlier diæresis, US dieresis derives from a Greek word meaning 'divide' or 'separate'. Archive 2007-03-01
• This is also spelled "daimio" without diaeresis above the "i" elsewhere in the text. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
• No diacritic marks are normally used for native English words, unless the apostrophe and the diaeresis sign are counted as such.
• This misspelling had been tackled earlier by Chast, who pointed out that Laennec, a native of Brittany, did not write his name with a diaeresis in his publications.