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>Dutch, German, and Afrikaans: Of these three close relations to English, only German uses Ä/ä, Ö/ö, and Ü/ü. Incorrect: Dutch uses the trema on the i, e, o, u

• pge 10y ago
  And anal English speakers (such as the copy editors of the New Yorker) also use the diaresis (the double dot over a vowel). In English, it is used over the second of two vowels in a row which are voiced separately, such as naive (should have the double dot over the i) or cooperate (double dot over the second o). The distinction is between a word like coop (meaning a house for chickens) in which the two vowels make one sound and a word like cooperation, in which the two o's are separate sounds.