John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺In modern usage of the #EnglishLanguage , I seldom see #DiacriticalMarks (#diacritics), and the #diaeresis is particularly rare.
"The diaeresis diacritic indicates that two adjoining letters that would normally form a digraph and be pronounced as one sound, are instead to be read as separate vowels in two syllables." (from Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic) )
Words such as "coordinate" and "reenter" can be cumbersome (especially to those relatively new to the language); versions with diaeresis ("coördinate" and "reënter") became archaic and replaced by their hyphenated versions ("co-operate" and "re-enter").
Yet "naïve" persists and has not (yet) become "na-ive".
As Unicode has largely surpassed ASCII, I think more people use the diaeresis rather than spelling it "naive" (which, appropriately, now seems naïve).
Today I had occasion to use "albeit", and thought it might benefit from a diaeresis.
If we were to try to improve it, which form do you think might best aid the reader?
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