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Diaeresis

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MauriceTheMussel · 13/10/2025 11:08

Any experience with a name with diaeresis, please? Is it a pain on forms? Does a passport exclude them etc?

Secondly, would it be “correct” to have diaeresis on Raphael?

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AutumnCosy2025 · 14/10/2025 22:57

Theyreeatingthedogs · 13/10/2025 17:03

I've heard some bad names suggested on here but this is the shittiest.

😂😂

BogRollBOGOF · 14/10/2025 22:39

I recently saw a youtube video about the difficulties of names with characters that computers don't recognise. It originated from the days of very limited memory and characters being restricted to "basic" letters, numbers and very limited punctuation and it still affects a ridiculous number of databases meaning names aren't reliably and stored consistently which can cause issues on databases and for issues like travelling when multiple bookings are made.

We didn't include accents in the DCs' names. It was unlikely to enhance pronounciation and more likely to have been logistically awkward than helpful.

Admittedly I did intially wonder if OP intended it as a name, but I've had an interesting day of dealing with logic-defying class lists when the rules of phonics and spelling have been over-ridden, and some vowels have been doing a lot of heavy lifting... Names can be a very loose concept...

PinkArt · 14/10/2025 13:52

LasVegass · 14/10/2025 08:53

A deliberate one though.

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hoarahloux · 14/10/2025 13:51

LasVegass · 13/10/2025 21:54

I know a Zoe spelled as Zöe instead of Zoë

I knew a Chlöe! Drove me bonkers to look at it!

LasVegass · 14/10/2025 08:53

stickygotstuck · 14/10/2025 08:46

That's just a misspelling, isn't it?

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A deliberate one though.

stickygotstuck · 14/10/2025 08:46

LasVegass · 13/10/2025 21:54

I know a Zoe spelled as Zöe instead of Zoë

That's just a misspelling, isn't it?

MrsGusset · 14/10/2025 08:17

Mrsplants · 13/10/2025 21:50

This thread has really made me laugh this evening

Yes, very funny. It's teetering on the edge of becoming another “but Kacper is Polish” thread.

LasVegass · 13/10/2025 21:54

I know a Zoe spelled as Zöe instead of Zoë

PinkArt · 13/10/2025 21:51

I've got one in my name. I always make sure it's added when I'm writing my name by hand, but have got very lazy with trying to remember how to add it when typing. That laziness has annoyed me over the last couple of years though, so I've got better at adding it to things like email signatures.

Mrsplants · 13/10/2025 21:50

This thread has really made me laugh this evening

No87 · 13/10/2025 21:50

I have a tilde in my last name (Spanish name) and it's not included on any official documents...passports etc.

Ponderingwindow · 13/10/2025 21:42

Avoid. I have a name with something like this. It ends up sometimes in computer systems with all sorts of glitches. Then I can’t be found when they go to look me up. It’s gotten to the point that I know the common errors and can suggest it may need to be typed in to find me, but it’s a giant headache.

ShenandoahRiver · 13/10/2025 21:38

@RobertaFirmino
My dd has 2 fadas, she is very particular about them and they are on all her official documents, work lanyard, email etc

RobertaFirmino · 13/10/2025 21:06

Nobody will bother. I notice Jurgen Klopp and members of Kraftwerk are rarely given their umlauts. I have fadas, nobody ever bothers with them either.

DiscoBob · 13/10/2025 21:02

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 13/10/2025 17:31

@MauriceTheMussel isn’t suggesting using it as a name, @DiscoBob - it is a mark placed over a vowel - Zoë instead of Zoe, for example - it means both vowels are pronounced.

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Fucking hell I'm a mug. I genuinely thought they were saying it as a name. I missed the 'with'.

My mum is an English teacher so I'll tell her and she'll kick my arse.

Sorry OP and I'm glad I'm not the only one who got the wrong end of the stick...😂

Diaresisareus · 13/10/2025 20:57

I love that Mumsnet lists ‘diastassis recti surgery’ as a similar thread

Calliopespa · 13/10/2025 20:49

APatternGrammar · 13/10/2025 19:55

Irritable vowel syndrome?

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Diaresisareus · 13/10/2025 20:39

Well, it helpfully distinguished Dd from the other Zoe in her class, although I hadn’t really planned for her to be known as ‘Zoë with the two dots’.

I still like it but she’s found it a bit annoying as secondary school computer system couldn’t cope with it and she now writes it without. My mother, who tried hard but it was beyond her, came up with a surprising array of random accents on random letters of my Dd’s name.

Cinai · 13/10/2025 20:36

Happy to see that this thread doesn’t disappoint 😁

APatternGrammar · 13/10/2025 19:55

steamingin · 13/10/2025 19:44

Or even two dots placed over a vowel....

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Irritable vowel syndrome?

steamingin · 13/10/2025 19:44

StartingOverIn2025 · 13/10/2025 19:38

It really does sound like an awful medical complaint - a mixture of diarrhoea and enuresis. Sorry OP.

Or even two dots placed over a vowel....

StartingOverIn2025 · 13/10/2025 19:38

It really does sound like an awful medical complaint - a mixture of diarrhoea and enuresis. Sorry OP.

CurlewKate · 13/10/2025 19:30

I think Ellipsis is lovely for a girl. If it feels too unusual she can go by Elly at school…

IslaVarran · 13/10/2025 18:22

They're not quite the same. An umlaut changes the vowel, a diaeresis prevents two vowels from combining, e.g. naïve is nah-eve not nayv. @PrissyGalore

PrissyGalore · 13/10/2025 17:51

I’ve always called it an umlaut-didn’t know there was a different term!