Joe Reid wrote:
> My Eudora produced a tall rectangle for the circumflexed letters
> that Bill quoted.
>
> The Shorter Oxford dictionary confirms the diaerisis (also
> dierisis) comes from Greek.
I hope those aren't the spellings they give. <g>
It's diæresis or dieresis. (The ae ligature on the first of those two may
or may not display correctly on your Mac, Joe.)
IBM must have a penchant for obscurantism, as I haven't found tremma used
other than in their literature (and in some 18th century Italian poetry).
Even the largest of my dictionaries doesn't include it.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
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