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We’re living in a time where we have more technology than ever for sharing our words, but we still constantly get misunderstood. One cause of this is that we simply don’t use enough punctuation in our ...

When using foreign words or names in your business correspondence, it's often necessary to add two dots above a vowel to form an umlauted character. Umlauts are used in German words to change the ...

RE2 is an efficient, principled regular expression library that has been used in production at Google and many other places since 2006. Safety is RE2's primary goal. RE2 was designed and implemented ...

Chloe, also spelled Chloë or Chloé, translates to "young green shoot," "blooming," or "fertility" in Greek. This sweet name has ties to spring, youth, and vitality. The Proto-Indo-European root that ...

Boris Johnson goes to Scotland. The newly installed prime minister heads north to improve ties with a part of the UK that voted to remain in the EU in 2016. While Johnson has committed himself to ...

When the first email was sent in 1971, Richard Nixon was president. The video game “Pong” was still in development. The Pittsburgh Pirates was a good baseball team. This is to say, technological ...

Bronte sisters memorial given correct dots after 85 years in Westminster Abbey The novelists used a diaeresis accent over the E in their surname, but their 1939 plaque in Poets’ Corner omitted it Gift ...

John William Morales, better known as Jowi, is a writer, a career coach, a professional photographer, and a leisure pilot. He's been using, discovering, and exploring PCs since Windows 3.1 and has ...

The word diaeresis has come up twice recently, granted one of them was in the game show Jeopardy, and the other one I credit to Zoë Kravitz (although I suspect Lenny and Lisa were responsible for the ...

Follow the links, or scroll down just a bit to see the first one. The table columns show the symbolic character reference, which always begins with an ampersand (&) and ends with a semicolon (;). The ...