Best spelling? Zoë Zoe Zoey Zooey

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Zoe. No question.

+1

We have a Zoe. Unless you are European and frequently in a country where various accents are common it doesn’t seem necessary.

Me again! FWIW I had a boss (NJ native) whose name was accented and no one - I mean no one - used the accent. And this is Corporate America and my office was all about DEI. No one wants to search around for this when writing a short email, text, etc. Your Zoe will constantly be correcting people (annoying).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The dots are kind of weird right?

The two dots are called umlauts used mainly in German and as you are not living in Germany just stop with trying to be different by looking stupid. Spell your child's name correctly: Zoe!

[Anonymous]

I would definitely use the umlaut. Zoë.

[Anonymous]

Can you add the umlaut in filling out airline forms and similar? A friend of mine who has a French name with an accent has experienced delays from her boarding pass not matching her documents in the past. It is very frustrating for her.

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Anonymous wrote:I would definitely use the umlaut. Zoë.

Not if you live in an English speaking country. The *diaereses* (see, we can’t even agree on what they are called because they are not used in English) don’t exist in English and no one will use them. They don’t mean anything to the vast majority of people in the US. As someone else wrote, you don’t give into morons - you teach them.

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I have a Zoë! She loves the dots! She gets compliments from friends, teachers, specifically about the dots! Zoe/Zoey is very common so Zoë sets her apart just a little bit. Just be warned you cannot put the dots on the birth certificate. Her school does use the dots though on her report cards/official paperwork. It did cause confusion once when they said I didn't sign her up for kindergarten, the secretary wasn't searching with the dots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Zoë.

It looks incomplete otherwise and is not complicated to type.

Please point to the diaeresis/umlat key on your standard American keyboard.

All I do is hold down the e and it gives the option. Mom of a Zoë here. On my phone it automatically corrects the name after a few times spelling it that way, so family members don't have an issue either.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would definitely use the umlaut. Zoë.

Not if you live in an English speaking country. The *diaereses* (see, we can’t even agree on what they are called because they are not used in English) don’t exist in English and no one will use them. They don’t mean anything to the vast majority of people in the US. As someone else wrote, you don’t give into morons - you teach them.

It's funny to see someone calling other people morons while also saying diaereses don't exist in English. They're uncommon but they absolutely do exist. Zoë is one example.

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Whenever I see someones social media who has the name Zoë I always think it looks nice on their profile. Weird but idk it's just visually appealing. Like if it's a TikTok account and it says Zoë at the top with age/location under it. Its just a clean looking name to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would definitely use the umlaut. Zoë.

Not if you live in an English speaking country. The *diaereses* (see, we can’t even agree on what they are called because they are not used in English) don’t exist in English and no one will use them. They don’t mean anything to the vast majority of people in the US. As someone else wrote, you don’t give into morons - you teach them.

Diareses do exist in English. Do you not see that your last two sentences are contradictory?

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Elizabeth.

Don’t make your daughter Zoe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would definitely use the umlaut. Zoë.

Not if you live in an English speaking country. The *diaereses* (see, we can’t even agree on what they are called because they are not used in English) don’t exist in English and no one will use them. They don’t mean anything to the vast majority of people in the US. As someone else wrote, you don’t give into morons - you teach them.

It's funny to see someone calling other people morons while also saying diaereses don't exist in English. They're uncommon but they absolutely do exist. Zoë is one example.

What English words (not “foreign” names) use the diaereses?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would definitely use the umlaut. Zoë.

Not if you live in an English speaking country. The *diaereses* (see, we can’t even agree on what they are called because they are not used in English) don’t exist in English and no one will use them. They don’t mean anything to the vast majority of people in the US. As someone else wrote, you don’t give into morons - you teach them.

Diareses do exist in English. Do you not see that your last two sentences are contradictory?

Well you are both a moron and if you are the insufferable “mom of Zoe with the dots poster” you are also insufferable. You’ve set your daughter up for a life of correcting people. She’ll drop the “dots” because everyone else will.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elizabeth.

Don’t make your daughter Zoe.

Gross

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would definitely use the umlaut. Zoë.

Not if you live in an English speaking country. The *diaereses* (see, we can’t even agree on what they are called because they are not used in English) don’t exist in English and no one will use them. They don’t mean anything to the vast majority of people in the US. As someone else wrote, you don’t give into morons - you teach them.

It's funny to see someone calling other people morons while also saying diaereses don't exist in English. They're uncommon but they absolutely do exist. Zoë is one example.

What English words (not “foreign” names) use the diaereses?

They're primarily used in loanwords because that's where they are needed to give an indication of how they word is pronounced. They're used in words like naïve and Noël, which are English words even if they originated in another language. How English indicates the pronunciation of foreign loanwords is part of English. Zoe rhymes with Toe, Zoë does not.