Re: French spelling scheme
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 1, 2001, 23:55 |
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Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> Well, then, strictly speaking, it isn't an umlaut, but a sort of trema
> or diaeresis. Like in French maïs = maize.
True. But at any rate, it's still the only vowel that uses that
diacritic, and I couldn't remember how to spell "dieresis" :-)
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