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

Comments

[bonoboboy.livejournal.com]

Makes me wonder about whether or not we're lazy with the English language. So many other languages use all these special marks, and we use ... well, I can't really think of all that many cases where we do use them.

But wow, I can't imagine how much more tedious typing would be with having to add special marks above half the alphabet!