From: Charles Levert (charles.levert@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 10 2005 - 15:49:02 CST
* On Thursday 2005-11-10 at 22:12:01 +0100, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> The "tréma" (french name for diaeresis, not for umlaut) can
> occur on all vowels, because its role in French is most often to avoid the
> creation of vocaling digraphs:
But ä and ö are generally regarded as not being French.
Do you know of any words that are French or have been accepted as being
French that contain them? (I already mentioned the Maelström case.)
> "guë" (or "güe" with the new orthograph)
Say it ain't so.
> The circumflex over î/Î and û/Û is currently being phased out in most
> words (now "île" = "ile", "aout"="août", "gout" = "goût",
Ditto.
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