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This usage is correct but dropped by almost all publications, as it has fallebln out of usage (perhaps in the era of the typewriter which didn't have the necess
by pge 10y ago
This usage is correct but dropped by almost all publications, as it has fallebln out of usage (perhaps in the era of the typewriter which didn't have the necessary keys?). The New Yorker is one of the few major publications that still does it. The dieresis is used any time there are two consecutive vowels that are not voiced as a diphthong (the difference between cooperate and a coop where you keep chickens). "Cooperate" and "naive" seem to be the most common affected words (with the latter sometimes retaining the dieresis in publications that don't otherwise employ it).
- grzm 10y agoI find language esoterica very interesting. The New Yorker uses diaeresis¹ with the prefix re as well, such as reëlect, reëstablish, and reëxamine.² http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-t... We do change our style from time to time. My predecessor (and the former keeper of the comma shaker) told me that she used to pester the style editor, Hobie Weekes, who had been at the magazine since 1928, to get rid of the diaeresis. She found it fussy. She said that once, in the elevator, he told her he was on the verge of changing that style and would be sending out a memo soon. And then he died. This was in 1978. No one has had the nerve to raise the subject since. --- ¹ Or should that be diæresis? ² Speaking of style guides: Ooh, look! An Oxford comma!