Worthless trivia time! Diaereses are very popular in the Dutch language, because the language is full of consecutive vowels, which have a distinct sound. We're

Worthless trivia time! Diaereses are very popular in the Dutch language, because the language is full of consecutive vowels, which have a distinct sound. We're just not trained t guessing where to break syllables without help. If "cooperative" was a Dutch word and spelled like that, we'd say coo-perative, get confused, backtrack, oh wait co-operative ahyeah. For example, "ie" in "fiets" (bike) is pronounced like English "ee". But now imagine you're a sixteen year old deejay with big ambitions and you want a name people can remember you by. You come up with "Tiesto" which sounds cool, but all your friends would pronounce it "Teesto". Ok no biggie, "DJ Tiësto" it is. Another public favourite is the plural of sea (zee): zeeën. Leaving the dots, "zeeen" would make people very nervous - is it "ze-een" (she one) or "zee-en" (seas)?