• f314@lemmy.world
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    5 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