Re: regex of the month (decade?)

Chris Dolan wrote:
> On a major tangent, have others noticed the resurgence of the umlaut 
> in printed English?  I keep seeing things like coöperation or 
> coördinates -- particularly in Technology Review, but in other 
> publications on occasion too.  Is that because it's *supposed* to be 
> spelled that way, but ASCII and the typewriter have suppressed that 
> spelling for my lifetime?
>

    A quick use of Google-fu unearthed a blog entry 
http://www.dwelle.org/archives/2007/01/05/whats-with-all-the-umlauts/, 
which in turn pointed to the page 
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/profirst/d.htm that says:

*dieresis* or *diæresis   *A diacritical mark (* ¨ *) optionally used in 
English, oftentimes replaced by a hyphen. In English, the dieresis is 
used on a second identical vowel to indicate a change in pronunciation 
of that vowel or indicate it is pronounced in a separate syllable. It is 
sometimes referred to as an « umlaut » when used with a single character 
or in a « diphthong. » Examples: reëlecting, reëncoding, coöperation, 
coördination.



    Well I, for one, never knew that such a thing existed.  Neato!  Too 
bad the name of the mark, though, which is definitively unfortunate.


Joÿ,
`/anick