Co ördinated

[Ben Zimmer]

Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>
> I found it funny that, in a recent issue of the New Yorker, they used the
> word "coördinated", with the umlaut on the second letter "o", several times.
>
> The first two usages were in an article on Karl May, who wrote fiction
> about the American West. I thought this was some kind of editorial joke
> until I found the word again in an article on Camus.

The diaeresis has long been part of New Yorker style, and they're sticking to
it.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/04/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis.html

--bgz

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