Sept. 2, 2011
6:01 a.m.
Greg Ewing, 02.09.2011 02:36:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
But in a word like "coëxistentie" (coexistence) the o and e do not form the oe-sound, and to emphasize this to Dutch readers (who believe their spelling is very logical :-), the official spelling puts the umlaut on the e.
Sometimes this is done in English too -- occasionally you see words like "cooperation" spelled with a diaresis over the second "o". But these days it's more common to use a hyphen, or not bother at all. Everyone knows how it's pronounced.
Right. There are so many words in the English language that you can't pronounce without knowing them, that the few words that fall into the above category really don't matter. Stefan