TIL that The New Yorker spells "coördinated" with an umlaut over the second o. (Is this the only word in American English with an umlaut?)
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@warrenm I just found another in "naïveté".
@danothebeach Sure. It’s just a diaeresis, to indicate that two vowels are pronounced independently rather than as a diphthong.
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@warrenm Ah, I did not know that. Thanks for the info.(How did I miss that in third grade grammar class??) -
@danothebeach They’re not often taught. My first encounter was in an Advanced Algebra text published in the 60’s (“coördinates”).
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@warrenm@danothebeach Rather quaint these days, but not altogether remarkable :)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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