From: Jörg Knappen (knappen@uni-mainz.de)
Date: Tue Nov 15 2005 - 06:39:22 CST
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Charles Levert wrote:
> * On Thursday 2005-11-10 at 22:12:01 +0100, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> > The "tréma" (french name for diaeresis, not for umlaut) can
> > occur on all vowels, because its role in French is most often to avoid the
> > creation of vocaling digraphs:
>
> But ä and ö are generally regarded as not being French.
> Do you know of any words that are French or have been accepted as being
> French that contain them? (I already mentioned the Maelström case.)
There is the family name du Roscoät. This is the only example I can come
up with.
--J"org Knappen
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