Diaeresis in a sentence as a noun

Here is a quick test:What is "o".length?It's one grapheme, an o with a diaeresis.

I do warn them about the diaeresis though.

But think how much harder, still, it would be without the snooty diaeresis on "coöperation".

The diaeresis in this context is not an Umlaut.

This is way off topic, but if you use a diaeresis in "coperation," you are probably an *******.

While äöü in German are letters with distinct sounds, the diaeresis on vowels in English usage signifies a short pause before that vowel.

Kind of a shame that diaeresis and respelling arent used in English much anymore, else itd properly be spelled mat or Anglicised as mattay.

> ReëducationWhile this is completely unrelated to the subject matter, I admire the New Yorker's insistence on keeping the diaeresis alive.

> Wei had only recently returned from a reëducation campThey'll put a diaeresis in re-education but they won't print tone diacritics in Chinese names.

A bit offtopic, but: > concidence While I get that the diaeresis signifies that the first part of the word isn't one syllable like "coin" but two syllables like "co-in", it seems a little archaic to write it that way. Should one also write "beng" or "gong", lest someone pronounce these as one syllable words?

Ironically, the diaeresis which it probably ignored is essentially an indication that the two adjacent vowels do not form a digraph and hence form parts of two syllables.

Han unification, indic scripts or the lack of differentiation between umlaut and diaeresis are difficult and require experts to be solve satisfactorily.

Diaeresis definitions

noun

a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound

See also: umlaut dieresis