Re: Real language questions

Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> >Ciege Engine wrote:
> >> 1. How can the word protozoon be pronounced
> >> proh-toe-ZOE-an?
>
> Or did you have in mind proh-toe-zoon? (rhyme with moon)? (a) it's a
> learned compound of Greek words; and as everyone ;-) ought to know, zoon was 2
> syllables (b) it's sometimes written with a dieresis over one of the
> o's, I forget which-- protozöon or protozoön (probably the latter).  Like
> coöperate or reënter, though that's a little old fashioned.....
It's the latter.  I use the diaeresis about as often as not.

> Another one for the team:  dieresis is also spelled diaeresis.
I've always seen the latter used.

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