It is pronounced cleek, not click!

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I am no SPAG pedant as I am rubbish at it, but I am a pronunciation pedant.

Please, if this is you, change your ways!

I reckon saying it like "click" is an eggcorn.

If you don't know it's French you might think it's something to do with a group of people you click with?

There are several theories about Patrick's change of name so who knows?

As to your other question - I'm trying to think of one and this is now my mission for the day 😁

All the examples I looked at only had one instance, Brontë.
They've fallen out of use in English, but I think some Welsh, Dutch, Spanish and French words have them.

No, I don't think there's another. My initial thought was saké but of course that's an acute accent.

Diaeresis (diacritic) - Wikipedia, @TellingBone .
Examples include the given names Chloë and Zoë, which otherwise might be pronounced with a silent e. To discourage a similar mispronunciation, the mark is also used in the surname Brontë.

"The missing diaereses may be as much of a mystery as the diaereses themselves." Brontë sisters finally get their dots as names corrected at Westminster Abbey | Books | The Guardian

Do they? I say ommarge, how do you hear people saying it?

I say homij
uk /ˈhɒm.ɪdʒ/ us /ˈhɑː.mɪdʒ/ /ˈɑː.mɪdʒ/ /oʊˈmɑːʒ/

Yes but the question was whether there was another word where the vowel is not next to another vowel

Well, let’s call it a diacritical mark, introduced by a man reinventing his surname to stave off class and ethnic prejudices? That these were still absolutely at play in the Brontës’ is suggested by, among other things, Branwell being burned in effigy with a potato in his hand when he got involved with a crowd heckling Patrick when he spoke at a hustings.

Sorry, I'd gone back a post or two, I think Brontë's a rogue one.

@Milkwomen , diacritical mark is perfect. Thanks.

He was trying to render a name correctly spelled Ó Proinntigh. Using a diacritical mark to make it clear it wasn't an English name, while obscuring the fact that is Irish, was understandable in that time and place.

That is documented. The choice of diacritical mark isn't.
Was é in use in English at the time?

Until now, I’d always assumed the sisters went by A / B / C Bell because of gender. Now I think it’s because of the ridiculous spelling of their last name!

He seems to have used a macron or tilde at first, and there’s a suggestion in a Brontë Society paper commenting on Juliet Barker’s biography that PB may only have started using the diaresis because of a typo on the title page of his first book.

<a class="break-all" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231130130411/yek.me.uk/bronte.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20231130130411/yek.me.uk/bronte.html

I think thats a really good point