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Actually, given English's crazy spelling, it's pretty useful in English. There was a restaurant in my town -- the sign is still up but it's closed -- called "C
by DFHippie 3y ago
Actually, given English's crazy spelling, it's pretty useful in English.
There was a restaurant in my town -- the sign is still up but it's closed -- called "Cooper's Coop". For a while after they put their sign up I thought it was a cooperative/coöperative. If there'd been a diaresis I would have known it was the chicken coop sort of coop they had in mind.
- schoen 3y agoFor non-native English speakers, it's something like /ku:p/ for chickens /'koʊ.ɑp/ for cooperatives People sometimes spell the latter "co-op" (as an alternative to the New Yorker's "coöp") to make clear that it's two syllables. There's also a college merchandise shop in Cambridge, MA, called The Coop that seems to encourage people to use the chicken-oriented pronunciation as a joke. https://www.thecoop.com/our-story https://www.thecoop.com/our-story
- scoot 3y ago> If there'd been a diaresis (sic) I would have known it was the chicken coop sort of coop they had in mind. Except that there wouldn't have been a diaeresis, because (chicken) coop doesn't have one.
- DFHippie 3y agoTrue.
- nkrisc 3y agoAgreed that it is useful. I meant not necessary in the sense that pretty much no English speaker will ever expect it to be used.