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?

#linguistics

I compared the frequency of the words coöperation, cooperation, co-operation using Google's Ngram Viewer:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=coöperation%2C+cooperation%2C+co-operation&year_start=1600&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3

This tends to jive with the suspicion that the #Diaeresis spelling for native words in #English had always been very rare (and not THE way to spell) and became a bit of a retro fad in English writing of the Victorian era.