https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)
Indicates that the two o's are separate syllables.
Indicates that the two o's are separate syllables.
It's pointless in English because we have nothing remotely close to phonetic spelling.
If we want to bring back cool things from French can we start with reverting to spellings like "connexion", "reflexion" etc.?
It’s in use. It hasn’t disappeared. It’s not the norm, but it is definitely still in use.
It was hard for me to type those on my English keyboard. That's reason enough for me to say they are not really part of English any more and haven't been for decades. I do like writing connexion sometimes, and I note that this isn't even considered a spelling error in my installed dictionary, unlike coördinate, but I'm not going to claim that it's "still in use" because I read a dictionary one time.
It’s not “still in use” because it’s in the dictionary.
It’s “still in use” because it’s still in use.