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coöperate – we used to have a diaeresis on the second ‘o’ to indicate a second syllable (and to make it clear we weren’t talking about barrel making) but then we decided we hated accent marks …
bring back accent marks!!
As a German, it's a welcome change.
Imagine your head automatically pronouncing the "ö" of coöperate like this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-mid_front_rounded_vowel
the pain of being nordic/german, you're utterly incapable of taking anglophone metal albums seriously
"motörhead", yeah sure, mote 'er head
röck döts
Typesetters decided we hate accent marks
Typesetters were right.
The New Yorker would like to have a word.
They throw umlauts around like they're going out of style
Gotta use these things up guys