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> reëlection I love the use of the diaeresis.

• sangnoir 4y ago
  They are snooty as hell, and I'll forever associate them with The New Yorker[1]. That said, I love them too! Now, if only we could do the same for awry and other words that trip up voracious readers. 1. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...
  • gsinclair 4y ago
    They were once coming in English-language publications but now are seen in only The New Yorker, The Economist, and one other. Can anyone recall which?
    • eru 4y ago
      Interestingly, they seem to survive most in naïve than in words like coöperate. Co-operate is much more common than na-ive (which I've never seen). But both cooperate and naive seem reasonably well accepted.