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I don’t think people consider them part of the English alphabet. Which letters do they sort between, according to English sorting rules? Also, “Those two dots,
by scintill76 4y ago
I don’t think people consider them part of the English alphabet. Which letters do they sort between, according to English sorting rules?
Also, “Those two dots, often mistaken for an umlaut, are actually a diaeresis… Most of the English-speaking world finds the diaeresis inessential. Even Fowler, of Fowler’s “Modern English Usage,” says that the diaeresis “is in English an obsolescent symbol.””
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...