[Python-Dev] PEP 393 Summer of Code Project

[Stefan Behnel]

Greg Ewing, 02.09.2011 02:36:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> But in a word like "coëxistentie" (coexistence) the o
>> and e do not form the oe-sound, and to emphasize this to Dutch readers
>> (who believe their spelling is very logical :-), the official spelling
>> puts the umlaut on the e.
>
> Sometimes this is done in English too -- occasionally
> you see words like "cooperation" spelled with a diaresis
> over the second "o". But these days it's more common to
> use a hyphen, or not bother at all. Everyone knows how
> it's pronounced.

Right. There are so many words in the English language that you can't 
pronounce without knowing them, that the few words that fall into the above 
category really don't matter.

Stefan