Re: TERMS: going dotty, twice over (was: TERMS: Umlaut-Ablaut)

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Grandsire, C.A. wrote:

> Yes, I'm happy to have learned this word "tre'ma". I think that's
> the same one used in Dutch, isn't it?
Yes. Except that we don't have an acute accent on the e.

> I think that it is done in French, at least in linguistics. As we have
> already the word "tre'ma" for the two dots, we can easily confine
> "umlaut" and "die're`se" to the different usages of it.
I used to think (in fact I still think) that "umlaut" and "diaeresis"
were German and Latin/English, respectively, for "trema", purely the
two dots regardless of usage. I like your proposal a lot better!

   Irina

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