Often the diaeresis is omitted but sticklers for the language (like The New Yorker) insist on it. It confirms that the second vowel is another syllable. While the two terms are used interchangeably in English, there is a difference between Diaeresis and Umlaut.ĭiaeresis – is an English language term for the ‘double dots’ above the second of two vowels. Technically, a letter with diaeresis is a separate character.Ī plain letter a is Unicode 061 while ä is Unicode 00E4 (decimal 228) Difference between umlaut and Diaeresis In Word, type that with the old Alt + X trick. There is a separate diaeresis character, if for some reason you want it. See Two ways to find accented letters in Word for more. It will find both reelect’ and “ reëlect “ but also spelling errors like “rellect” or “realect” ^$ tells Word to accept any letter as a match. Search for “ re^$lect” will find any word starting with ‘re’ and ending with ‘lect’ with a single letter in between. Go to Options | Proofing | AutoCorrect Options (Windows) or Tools | Autocorrect options (Mac) It’s easiest to type the word correctly, with diaeresis, then copy it to the clipboard before going to AutoCorrect. Like magic the letter appears with a little umlaut above it.įor commonly used words, Autocorrect is the easiest way to automatically add a diaeresis where needed.Īdd an Autocorrect entry to convert the plain spelling word into the diaeresis version. Type the letter you want, any vowel or Y.Strictly the shortcut is Ctrl + : but most keyboards need the Shift to type a colon.Hold down Ctrl + Shift then press the Colon ( Ctrl + Shift + : ).It’s a prefix shortcut that you type before the letter. Winword has an in-built shortcut to add a diaeresis to any letter.
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Word for Windows & Mac has AutoCorrect which can fix your commonly used words to add diaeresis/umlaut.
On other platforms there are shortcuts built into the operating system – Mac, iPhone and iPad handle accented characters very well. Word for Windows has a special umlaut/diaeresis shortcut. For most English speakers, there’s no practical difference between a diaeresis and an umlaut … if you’re curious we’ve added an explanation below.
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