Today’s One Big Happy: Those itty-bitty dots are a diaeresis, a diacritic that has largely disappeared from use in English-language materials, except (famously) in The New Yorker. Mary Norris in a 4/26/12 piece in The New Yorker, “The Curse of the Diaeresis”, beginning: The special tool we use here at The New Yorker for punching … Continue reading Diacritic midges