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Date:      Tue, 08 Sep 1998 14:12:23 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: P-Day tomorrow! 
Message-ID:  <199809082112.OAA00815@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "08 Sep 1998 22:23:49 %2B0200." <xzplnnus696.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> 

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> Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes:
> > ...And if it's every rolled in, I insist that it be called...
> > 
> > 	"non-spacing Umlaat day"
> 
> Why "Umlaut"? Why does everybody have to call that ¨ an umlaut? Why
> does the HTML entity for ï have to be &iuml? Why use a German word
> when there's a perfectly good English word for the bloody double-dot:
> DIARESIS for chrissake!

"Diaresis" is either Latin or Greek for "two dots".  Latin, Greek, 
German - who cares?


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