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From: levy@princeton.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: diaeresis and no-L
Message-ID: <25@princeton.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Sep-83 18:03:19 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  5 18:03:19 1983
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The reason Noel is sometimes (ever more seldom) spelled with a diaeresis is
that it comes from French, where the word *must* have one because otherwise
oe is pronounced as a single vowel (lips as in o, tongue as in e).  The same
applies to "naive" (ai in French is pronounced e).

			-- Silvio levy