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acarophobia - “You might as well sit on the seat, the crabs in here jump fifteen feet.”
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diaeresisWe had pretty much decided that this word is the proper name for what we might call the lazy colon, the two dots over a letter, whether its function is to indicate the change of a vowel sound due to influence by a following vowel, the process known as umlaut (cf. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlaut), or to indicate that the vowel so marked is pronounced independently of the preceding vowel, as in naïve. But this site ( http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~kbarker/ling-devices.html) claims that diaeresis is the name of the latter process. A) Whoda thunk? and 2) Now what do we call the lazy colon?
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>Now what do we call the lazy colon?
d'oh.. umlaut? (or is this a trick question..)
-ron umluaf
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Dear Faldage. Sorry about retarded peristalsis quip.
I think it an error to say the umlaut is a form of dieresis.
In German script, that is handwriting, a small "e" is two vertical marks. As far as I know, it was just a sort of time saving convenience to put a miniature "e" over a vowel, instead of using two normal sized vowels.
I never thought to ask the prof why Goethe didn't use an umlaut in his name. Now that I think of ir neither did Hitler's propagandist Goebbels. But his Luftwaffe guy, Gõring, did.
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a cat fancier : a lover of cats
...looks pretty damn close to ayleur. Maybe an ayleurophile could be a lover of cats and a lover of AWAD. Don't worry about Jackie. She never looks down here. 
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