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Spelling it that way is a fantastic way to look pretentious.

• WorldMaker 5y ago
  It's at least a little more elementary than that. There are many, many school teachers of young children that will tell you that words like coöperative lost a lot useful disambiguation power when English dropped support for such syllabic markers. I see words written like that and I think of grade school, which seems like the opposite of pretension.
• gpderetta 5y ago
  I could have spelled in the naive way, but then the joke wouldn't have worked.