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[atax1a]

When I was growing up in the sixties, it was common to see a diaeresis in words like coördinate, coöperate, and reëntrant. These days The New Yorker is about the only mainstream publication that still uses them. I think they perform a useful service, so I continue to use them. (I am pretty sure that were it not for the diaeresis, I would have grown up pronouncing reëntrant as reen-trant.)

The New Yorker also puts the ô in rôle. English is a weird language.

 

[lgrant]

Interesting. I was not aware of that. According to Wikipedia:

In English, the circumflex, like other diacritics, is sometimes retained on loanwords that used it in the original language (for example entrepôt, crème brûlée).

So I guess it is accepted enough to not be a foreign word (in which case it would be in italics), but not yet completely Anglicized.

Now that I think of it, the same holds true of "résumé", which keeps the accents but is not put in italics.

 

[drhowarddrfine]

The New Yorker also puts the ô in rôle. English is a weird language.

There is a show on Netflix, I think, about the New Yorker where they talk about how they spell things and how they put periods after abbreviations when no one else does.