please be kind to me! help with the two little dots above a letter!!

[mellyonion]

my dd is Zoe...she has the two dots above her e...i thought this was called an "uumlat" (or similar!) and was to make the E sound like an eeeeeee, ie. "ZowiEEEEE"
rather than no sound as in joe...(sounding like row)

so, have i got it right, and why doe some zoes have the dots above the o, and lastly, how do i type them on my keyboard????

many thanks, oh wise and clever ones!

thanks so much everyone! cheers cod...

still can't get the damn thing to type though.........

silly onion silly keyboard!

CAN'T EVEN CROSS OUT A BLOODY WORD NOW!!!
is it bed time yet????

Thanks - have just emailed dh to let him know that dd's umlaut is in fact a diaeresis.
Thanks!

go to insert symbol in word and it will be there.

some style woman is Rachel Zoe pronounced Zow.

But it's her surname.

Hmmm

Diaeresis means that you pronounce the two vowels separately. Umlaut changes the pronunciation of the vowel above which it is placed.

I just named my LO Leila - French spelling - and I just found out (from a French person!) that there should be 2 dots above the i!! - i suppose that would be a diaeresis too! I have no idea how to type the i with 2 dots above it though! Any ideas?

By the way I have a mac...

Hey! I just found the special ï in 'symbols' in word and pasted here. I wonder if there is a short cut so that I wouldn't have to paste from word though....
Leïla!! very french!

Mac = alt + u then type the i. Lovely name!

Did anyone else wince at the use of ?repurpose? in the Wikipeida article to which Cod referred us?

I simply type the name Zoe into Word, it corrects it with the diaeresis et voila!

ï thanks botbot you are a genius!!!

ǽ

Just testing. Why does it only show the code?

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Oh and again. Sorry, will piss off now

bollocks!

i did it on word...set my shortcut keys up, did it on a word document...all fine, feeling very clever about it all, then came to practice on here, and my chosen shortcut gives me an e with an accent.....é......
what's that all about then??????

pants pants pants......

how do you put in on a u in Mac if you are using u to create the umlaut? DH is Jurgen (with umlaut on the u) - not sure how to do it!

If I am writing a letter with his name in (him too) we print it out and add the umlaut by hand. He likes to have it!

on a Mac it is alt + u to get the dots, then u for the letter

Jürgen

Buy a French keyboard - Zoë.

My daughter has Zoë as her third name. Zoë is my mother's first name. My mother has always hated it.

I have always used the two dots over my 'e', but only now have I the correct name for it so thank you

I didn't use them when I was younger, then I had a teacher who got quite cross about me NOT using them as it wasn't correct and I got in the habit after that!

Have to say, I don't always bother when typing, but always use them when writing.

Those dots not called 'Umlaut' but "trema". They are meant to separate the e from the o, that's why it is correct to say ZO-Eeee and not something like Joe. You can point out to people who do that they - probably - don't say CitROWn but Citro-en!

The code for ë on my PC is Alt and 137 on the number pad, but I usually just copy the ë out of the internet as I cannot be bothered with the code.

Mhm, and I guess all the parents of "Zöe"s got it wrong somehow...