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The New Yorker's house style is to use a dieresis to indicate when adjacent vowels do not form a diphthong. There's a syllable-break in between the Os of "coöpe

The New Yorker's house style is to use a dieresis to indicate when adjacent vowels do not form a diphthong. There's a syllable-break in between the Os of "coöperate", as opposed to between the Os of "chicken coop", so it gets a special marker. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_%28diacritic%29#English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_%28diacritic%29#Engl... "proffer" is also a perfectly legitimate word: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/proffer https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/proffer

spurgu 6y ago
While being a non-native speaker I still consider myself to have a high grade of English knowledge and I knew about neither of these. Thank you!
- nkurz 6y ago
  Just to complete the trifecta, the URL date is presumably that of the print issue in which this article will appear. This "cover date" is usually a week or so ahead of the actual printing date: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_date https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_date