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How to pronounce “diaëresis”
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Pronunciation guide for diaëresis
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of diaëresis with real speech in context.
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- The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker's Comma Queen
- Definition summary
- (linguistics, prosody)
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How to pronounce diaëresis
The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker's Comma Queen

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A Deep Dive Into “diaeresis”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (linguistics, prosody)
- (figurative, rare) A division, a separation.
- (prosody) A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot in a line of verse.
- (surgery, archaic) An act of separating body parts or tissues which are normally together.
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