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How to pronounce “diaeresis”
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Pronunciation guide for diaeresis
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of diaeresis with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker's Comma Queen
We put the diaeresis, the double dot, over the "i" in "naïve."
- Definition summary
- (linguistics, prosody)
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How to pronounce diaeresis
The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker's Comma Queen

We put the diaeresis, the double dot, over the "i" in "naïve."
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “diaeresis”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (linguistics, prosody)
- (figurative, rare) A division, a separation.
- (prosody) A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot in a line of verse.
- (surgery, archaic) An act of separating body parts or tissues which are normally together.
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