On: Umlauts, Diaereses, and the New Yorker (2020)

[lalaithion]

English isn’t set by a standards body; it’s designed by all of our little choices. And I think English is enhanced by the noble diaeresis, and diminished without it, so I will continue to write reëlect, reëvaluate, and coöperate.

And maybe perhaps the pronunciation of diaeresis would be clearer written diaëresis?

[jplrssn → lalaithion]

> And maybe perhaps the pronunciation of diaeresis would be clearer written diaëresis?

Wouldn't diëresis be more correct? Now I'm curious how the New Yorker writes it.

[ahazred8ta → lalaithion]

I kind of wish we used a raised small dot: coׁordinate (smaller than an apostrophe)