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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Languages written without diacritics
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 23:37:33 GMT
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In article <57vh17$o77@qualcomm.com>, Jill Lundquist <jill@qualcomm.com> wrote:
>In article <32a2cadd.19649262@news.cris.com>,
>Chuck Coker <CJCoker@Cris.Com> wrote:
>>I haven't seen coperate (o-diaeresis) spelled that way since I was a
>>kid.
>
>As a further data point, I have seen it in The New Yorker in 
>the last year.

	As I posted earlier, "The New Yorker" consistently uses the
diaeresis in cooperate, coefficient, reentry, etc.  AFAIK, it is the *only* 
periodical in the English-speaking world to do so.  That is why I consider
this usage a proprietary quirk, on par with the choice of a font, and not
part of the standard language at all.

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