"Dan Bron" <[email protected]> writes:

> umlaut.  I am fine with this nomenclature so long as there exist
> (relatively) well known human languages in which the diacritic "makes
> all the difference", i.e. the diacritic is not a merely hint towards
> pronunciation but matter of identity, and removing it renders a new
> and different letter, and consequently a new and different word (like
> changing a->u changes "cat" to "cut").

German: schon - schön
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