●In Orthography & Diacritical marks:
A
(◌̈)
over a
(especially the second of two
)
that it is
, usually
a
,
the English
, Noël and Brontë, the French haïr and the Dutch ruïne.
●In Linguistics & Prosody:
Distraction; the
of a
, often a
, into two
syllables.
●In Linguistics & Prosody:
Hiatus; the
of
in
without an
consonant.