Ä
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/daɪˈɛrɪsɪs/
dy-ERR-i-sis
(plural –> diaereses)
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*aka* –> “umlaut”
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(from greek word diaíresis)
(διαίρεσις)
(meaning [‘division’ / ‘separation’ / ‘distinction’])
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(the diaeresis + the umlaut are 2 ‘homo-glyphic dia-critical marks’ that consist of 2 dots ( ¨ ) placed over a ‘letter’ (usually a ‘vowel’)
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(when that letter is an i or a j, the diacritic replaces the tittle: ï.)
(the diaeresis and the umlaut are ‘diacritics’ marking 2 distinct ‘phonological phenomena’)
(the ‘diaeresis’ represents the ‘phenomenon’ (also known as diaeresis or hiatus) in which a ‘vowel letter’ is pronounced separately from an ‘adjacent vowel’ + not as part of a ‘digraph’ or ‘diphthong’)
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(the umlaut (/ˈʊmlaʊt/), in contrast, indicates a ‘sound shift’)
(these 2 diacritics originated separately)
(the ‘diaeresis’ is considerably older)
(nevertheless, in ‘modern computer systems’ using ‘unicode’, the ‘umlaut’ + ‘diaeresis’ diacritics are identically encoded
(e.g. U+00E4 äLATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS (HTML ä·ä) represents both a-umlaut and a-diaeresis
(much like the ‘hyphen-minuscode point’ represents both a ‘hyphen’ and often a ‘minus sign’)
(the same ‘symbol’ is also used as a ‘diacritic’ in other cases, distinct from both ‘diaeresis’ + ‘umlaut’)
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(for example, in ‘albanian’ + ‘tagalog’, ë represents a ‘schwa’)
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“ALTERNATE SPELLINGS” –>
diæresis
dieresis
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*AKA* –>
“TRÉMA”
“TREMA”
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*FOR MACS* –>
TO INSERT A “DIAERESIS SYMBOL” –>
(aka ‘ë’)
(hold down ‘letter key’ and then press ‘4’ when menu appears)
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