The special tool we use here at The New Yorker for punching out the two dots that we then center carefully over the second vowel in such words as “naïve” and “Laocoön” will be getting a workout this ...

A diaeresis (also spelled “dieresis”) is a diacritical mark in the form of two dots, like an umlaut, placed over a vowel to indicate that it is pronounced as a separate syllable. I'm looking for an ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . She continues, "Most of the English-speaking world finds the diaeresis inessential." The New Yorker, as we mentioned previously, does not, even though ...

- a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound ...

Our first suggestion for elimination: coöperation. While the web-only content appears blissfully free of this little quirk, it's all over the pages of the actual magazine, and it never fails to give ...