Ho, ho, ho! It must be the holiday season Piers ;-)
Chris
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On 23 Dec 2005, at 10:53, Piers Hemy wrote:
> Nice word, but fully up to your expectations.
>
> The word diæresis includes a digraph as the third character, and an
> example
> of a diæresis is over the second character of aïl signifying that
> the sound
> of the "a" and "i" is NOT a diphthong (i.e. that "a" and "i" are
> separate
> sounds).
>
> Perhaps linguists are cunning. Perhaps also linguists pull stunts,
> and
> whether those are cunning is another matter entirely.
>
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