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« premièred » ????!?!? i was already annoyed by « preëminent » but srsly the new yorker what is this
@wingo Diæresis is a useful thing. Helps you unsee the "meow" in "homeöwner", for example.
@vivia there is no diaeresis in premiered!!!
@wingo @vivia “My predecessor told me that she used to pester the style editor, Hobie Weekes, who had been at the magazine since 1928, to get rid of the diaeresis. She found it fussy. She said that once, in the elevator, he told her he was on the verge of changing that style and would be sending out a memo soon. And then he died.
This was in 1978. No one has had the nerve to raise the subject since.”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis
The New Yorker · The Curse of the Diaeresis