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A certain magazine famously -- notoriously, you might say, and I do -- would have you set a diaeresis -- the double-dot thing you might tend to refer to as an umlaut -- in words with repeat vowels, thus: "preëxisting," "reëlect." That certain magazine also refers to adolescents as "teen-agers." If you're going to have a house style, try not to have a house style visible from space.
- Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer's English, p.60
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