Dieresis

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of diaeresis. US, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel wordnet

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diaeresisumlaut

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"The New Yorker attempts to reïnstate the English dieresis in words like "coöperation," "zoölogical," and "reëntry"—an odd thing to reinstate in this day and age, and hardly in cooperation with most zoology."

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