Just because the word originated in French doesn't mean that we must spell it the same way as in French. Maybe it's new. Damm young kids can't even pernounce right.
The world has been going downhill since, oh, the days of the ancient Greeks. Show 17 more comments. Jasper No, because ua is usually! Show 3 more comments.
Community Bot 1. JumbleChaos JumbleChaos 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. Any who flagged this as very low quality should know that I think there's not much problem to it.
Only, it could use a little bit expansion. This answer does not address the question, it's a comment at best, and without any reference to back up the claim, it's not "worth pointing out".
While this is mostly correct, I will take the chance to point out that the US English-International keyboard layout allows you to type diaresis and other modifier marks. MarchHo Good point. Edited to note that my previous statement just applies to most English keyboards.
This is a Very Good Answer especially for a newcomer here. MARamezani, your links are for Chemistry. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Dewi Morgan Dewi Morgan 5 5 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Somewhat nitpicky, but the wording implies that all the loan words in the first box are of German origin.
A bunch of them are in fact Swedish. Thanks Smallhacker. I considered "Germanic" when I was writing it, but the Germanic languages include English, so I wimped out. Edited, but wording is still imperfect : — Dewi Morgan. Well, understandable Dictionaries can only record common usage.
So it falls to us, language users, to continue to use the bits we love, and preserve them from obscurity. Show 1 more comment. Add a comment. The autocorrect whisks it off, and you have to go back, highlight the letter, hold down the option key while pressing the u , and then retype the appropriate letter. The question is: Why bother? Especially since the diaeresis is the single thing that readers of the letter-writing variety complain about most. By the thirties, when Mr.
Hyphen was considering these things, the diaeresis was already almost obsolete, and he was through with it. He was for letting people figure things out for themselves. Not everyone at The New Yorker is devoted to the diaeresis. Style does change sometimes. For instance, back in the eighties, the editors decided to modernize by moving the semicolon outside of the closing quotation mark. Lu Burke used to pester the style editor, Hobie Weekes, who had been at the magazine since , to get rid of the diaeresis.
Like Mr. Once, in the elevator, Weekes seemed to be weakening. He told her he was on the verge of changing that style and would be sending out a memo soon. And yet we use the diaeresis for the same reason that we use the hyphen: to keep the cow out of co-workers.
The diaeresis is the single thing that readers of the letter-writing variety complain about most. 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 , to get rid of the diaeresis. She found it fussy.
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