diacritic of 2 dots over a letter, used to denote the separation of two consecutive vowels From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The diaeresis (plural: diaereses) is also spelled diæresis or dieresis. It is a diacritical mark: two dots ( ¨ ) put over a letter, usually a vowel.
It is most often used in this way:
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