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Your spelling of “noöne” is commendable - I love the rare occasions when I see things like coöperation these days - but “no one” is definitely two words.
by monadgonad 8y ago
Your spelling of “noöne” is commendable - I love the rare occasions when I see things like coöperation these days - but “no one” is definitely two words.
- ramses0 8y agoIs there a term for using an ö like this?
- impirius 8y agoIt's a diaeresis, used when a second consecutive vowel is pronounced in a separate syllable. The New Yorker likes to use them.
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- nayuki 8y agoMoreover, "no one" has two vowels in spelling but not in pronunciation - it's pronounced [noʊ wʌn].
- rauhl 8y agoI think that ‘noöne’ is the logical next step from the (widely viewed as permissible) ‘no-one’; OTOH ‘noone’ would just be wrong. Keeping it as two words would be like writing Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften as rechts shutz versicherungs gesellschaften, which would obviously be terrible
- chrismorgan 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)#English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)#English: > The use of [diaeresis], however, is considered to be largely archaic. My experience has it pretty much only moderately commonly used now in “naïve”, and by people that read and enjoy The New Yorker (though possibly only to be different and not for any good reason).