You're not joking, here's an extract from the Wikipedia entry [1]: "Nowadays in English, the diaeresis is normally left out (cooperate), except by The New York

You're not joking, here's an extract from the Wikipedia entry [1]: "Nowadays in English, the diaeresis is normally left out (cooperate), except by The New Yorker, or a hyphen is used (co-operate). It is, however, still common in loanwords such as naïve and Noël." This made me smile. Thanks! :) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiatus_(linguistics) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiatus_(linguistics)