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From: mac@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Alex Colvin)
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Subject: Re: naive question about uncial
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Date: 24 Apr 91 12:49:57 GMT
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A dieresis is a pair of dots over the second vowel in a pair that are
pronounced separately, as in nai:f, coo:perate, no:el.  

The same mark is used in German as the "umlaut", to blend in an "e" sound.
And in physics to denote the 2nd derivative with respect to time (fluon?).

For an uncial font for the Macintosh, check out the MU archives
(um-mts.cc.umich.edu) directory PC2: file "FO/IE" (179K binhex, stuffit),
which is based on the Book of Kells.