It's a great tool for discussing sales of the eggs from your coop at the coöp. But it nearly disappeared once. https://archive.is/3Oz0F https://archive.is/3Oz0F

It's a great tool for discussing sales of the eggs from your coop at the coöp. But it nearly disappeared once. https://archive.is/3Oz0F https://archive.is/3Oz0F """ We do change our style from time to time. My predecessor (and the former keeper of the comma shaker) told me that she used to pester the style editor, Hobie Weekes, who had been at the magazine since 1928, to get rid of the diaeresis. She found it fussy. She said that once, in the elevator, he told her he was on the verge of changing that style and would be sending out a memo soon. And then he died. This was in 1978. No one has had the nerve to raise the subject since. """ I am grateful it persists. As someone learning Dutch, it is VERY helpful in words like zeeën - ( zee-en - seas). Much easier to know what it is vs. zeeen. I hope it is similarly helpful for foreigners learning English.