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How To Use Dieresis In A Sentence

  • And speaking as one who often gets both parts of my name misspelt - an extraneous ‘e’ tacked onto the end of Sharp and pick where you like for people to put the dieresis. May 2008
  • And speaking as one who often gets both parts of my name misspelt - an extraneous ‘e’ tacked onto the end of Sharp and pick where you like for people to put the dieresis. What’s My Name Again?
  • For the iPad they will make a new version that substitutes hyphens for the dieresis. The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : New Yorker attempts workaround on dieresis
  • We personally do not use the dieresis in our own writing, but we respect and will defend the right of the New Yorker or anyone else to do so. The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Freetards outraged over dieresis ban
  • A dieresis denotes the separated pronunciation in English of two uncomfortably adjacent vowels. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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  • When two vowels snuggle together confusingly, a clarifying separation is indicated by the dieresis over the second vowel; in naïve, the two dots tell you to pronounce the word “nah-YEEV,” not “knave” or “knive.” The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
  • To get a lowercase ‘o’ with “dieresis” or “umlaut” marks you insert an ampersand (&) followed by lowercase ‘o’ and ‘uml’ and semicolon (;), like this: “ö” (minus the double quote marks) where you want the character to appear, producing ‘ö’. Scientific Vacuity of ID: Evolution hypothesis requires that the genome be a "multiple independent collection of selectable genes" - The Panda's Thumb
  • The version for print and Web browsers will contain the dieresis, as always. The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : New Yorker attempts workaround on dieresis
  • The term diaeresis earlier diæresis, US dieresis derives from a Greek word meaning 'divide' or 'separate'. Archive 2007-03-01
  • The term diaeresis earlier diæresis, US dieresis derives from a Greek word meaning 'divide' or 'separate'. On di(a)ereses
  • Variant forms include: opake, opaque aëriform, aeriform (with and without dieresis) gasses, gases phosphoret, phosphuret (but always carburet) Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments

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