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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience while most people pronounce Zoe so it rhymes with Joey, a not insignificant number pronounce it as if it rhymes with Joe. But every name can be mispronounced. In English, the dots are often termed dieresis, not umlaut.[/quote] It's a diaeresis if it's supposed to show that you pronounce the two vowels separately: naïve, Laocoön, coöperate, reëlect, Zoë. It's an umlaut if it changes the pronunciation of the vowel: Brünnhilde, schön, Führer (when there's no umlaut, you write Bruennhilde, schoen, Fuehrer). http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis[/quote] Dang! Check. MATE! :lol: Thanks to you and PP. I didn't know about the diaeresis. [/quote]
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