Random Language Fact Of The Day

[c9]

The New Yorker uses umlauts on some English words on which I'm not used to seeing them. It's legitimate, just very uncommon, and I thought I'd share.

• reëlection
• coöperated

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[mightycodking.livejournal.com]

This summer I read a book by Will Durant that did just that... it was originally published in 1926 or so, and I chalked it up to that.

He also uses an accent on role, "rôle".

Lastly, some words that are now completely anglicized were italicized in that print, considered to be foreign jargon.