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In article <1118@utcs.uucp> wagner@utcs.UUCP (Michael Wagner) writes:
>In article <163@dg_rtp.UUCP> goudreau@dg_rtp.UUCP (Bob Goudreau) writes:
>> (...)   The important issue is its distinction from plain "e"
>>or even from similar (but not identical) looking accents like the Hungarian
>>dieresis.
>
>Well, my Hungarian dictionary, having been written to enable Hungarians
>to learn English rather than to enable me to understand Hungarian, doesn't
>give the proper name for these symbols.  But there are two of them.
>One which looks like an oomlaut (although it has a different name), and
>one where the two dots are stretched into lines that slope up and to the
>right.  The second form lengthens the vowel but otherwise keeps it sounding
>like the oomlaut form.  
>
>Michael

That's what I meant.  The distinction between these accents is sometimes
lost by non-Hungarian readers.

Bob Goudreau