Entertainment / Literature / Dieresis: (also called an umlaut) A diacritic mark (?‚??) to show that vowels represent sounds of different quality--Algeo provides German Br????der (brothers') and Bruder (brother') as an example (316). In English, this marking indicates that the second of two vowels is pronounced separately from the earlier vowel. For instance, co???¶perate is pronounced as four syllables, not three, and the dieresis helps indicate this.
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