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[-] f314@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Historically you would use the umlaut (lit. re-sound in German) to signify that both vowels are pronounced separately and not as a diphthong! I think some publications, like The New Yorker, are pretentious enough to still use it.. In this case, cooperate would be spelled coöperate.

Edit: Oops! Meant to reply to Geek_King

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

That's extremely pretentious, I'm impressed!

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