• CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Also, by your coöperative pronunciation example, people would be mispronouncing reëlect.

    I’m not sure what you mean.

    It’s pronounced co-operative and re-elect. Coöp needs it to not sound like “coop” as in chicken coop. Reëlect needs it to not sound like “reel” as in fishing reel.

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        10 months ago

        Diaereses don’t indicate stress. They indicate separately pronounced vowels.

        When you say OP, who are you talking about? The author of the post was talking about hyphens, and nothing about stresssed syllables, and I’m the one who brought up diaereses, and I wasn’t referring to stressed syllables, either.