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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Zoe. No question.[/quote]

I wouldn’t. People will pronounce it, Zo. DDs friend has to correct people all the time I would add the y. [/quote]

This is dumb. Do you also spell it Chloey? People will [i]learn[/i]. Even if they start out functionally illiterate, they will learn. You have to teach them, not give in to morons. [/quote]

Correct. Zoe is originally of Greek origin, and has been adopted in other languages. Some of those languages use umlats. English doesn't. In English we spell the Greek names Chloe, Phoebe, Calliope, Penelope, Daphne, Hermione without umlats. Why should Zoe be different?[/quote]

We use diaeresis (they're not umlauts, they mean something different) in English for words where we need to indicate that a vowel is pronounced as a separate syllable. Naïve. Brontë. It's falling out of fashion, but it has been a very normal part of English.[/quote]

The Bronte sisters' father added the diaeresis, it was not originally spelled that way.[/quote]

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